Activist Who Helped Deliver PA to Trump Warns GOP Could ‘Lose Everything in November’
“Republicans, if you do not embrace early voting and mail-in voting … you will lose everything, and that’s gonna set us up for failure in 2026.
Many readers are likely unfamiliar with GOP activist Scott Presler. He is the founder of the Early Vote Action network, a nationwide group of grassroots activists dedicated to getting out the GOP vote. According to EVA’s website, its purpose is to “register Republican voters and get them committed to vote early, absentee, by mail, or on Election Day – by any means necessary!”
Presler’s group was instrumental in reducing the Democrats’ 2020 registration advantage in Pennsylvania from more than 500,000 active voters to approximately 50,000 over four years. In doing so, he helped deliver the state to President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
Presler delivered an urgent message to Republicans on Saturday. In a deadly serious tone, he pleaded with GOP voters to prioritize early voting and mail-in voting. Failure to do so, he warned, will mean certain defeat.
“I’m not here to bring you a happy video. I’m here to give you a dose of reality. It’s August 29th. I want you to bookmark this… I’m here to tell you, Republicans are gonna lose everything this November unless we change things — and quickly,” he said.
Specifically, he warned of certain Democratic victories in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, as well as in Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court justice races, if Republicans refuse to act.
You’re gonna lose the governorship in Virginia and you’re gonna have a Democrat. You’re gonna lose the governorship in New Jersey and you’re gonna have Mikie Sherrill, Murphy 2.0. And in Pennsylvania, where we have been working tirelessly, non-stop even since the election, we’re on the verge of having three Democrat Supreme Court justices retained until 2035.
If you are only planning to vote on Election Day, on Tuesday, November 4th, consider the election’s gone, over, game over, you’ve already lost.
If voters don’t cast an early ballot or request a mail-in ballot now, he warned, “You are going to lose everything.”
However, Presler noted that we “still have 66 days to change things.”
But at the same time, I’m also making this as a ‘Scott was right video’ that if and when Republicans do not embrace early voting and mail-in voting, and we lose everything, I want to be able to point to this video and say, ‘Well, I tried to tell ya.’
In 2022, the machines went down in Arizona on Election Day, and we have [Democratic Gov.] Katie Hobbs. … In Nevada, we lost an election by 8,000 votes because it snowed on Election Day. In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, we have John Fetterman today, in part, because they ran out of paper on Election Day. And, if Republicans do not learn from history, we are undoubtedly going to repeat the same mistakes and then wonder why.
After Republicans were caught flat-footed in 2020 by the Democrats’ sweeping early-voting and mail-in ballot drive, the RNC under Michael Whatley and Lara Trump fought fire with fire in 2024 — and it changed everything.
The GOP would clearly prefer a return to a single Election Day, with absentee voting reserved for cases of genuine necessity. But unless and until that system is restored, Republicans can’t afford to ignore these methods of voting.
Presler is right. We must approach the 2025 elections with the same determination we brought to 2024.
Although the latest polls show Democrat Abigail Spanberger ahead of Republican Winsome Earle-Sears, Virginia’s current Lieutenant Governor, and Democrat Mikie Sherrill leading her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, in New Jersey, the gaps are narrowing in both races.
Robert Johnson, the co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, who has in the past supported both former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (but not in 2021) and Hillary Clinton, made a $500,000 donation to Earle-Sears’ campaign last week.
Johnson was incensed when a Spanberger campaign volunteer displayed a racist sign at a recent Earle-Sears event. The sign read, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom, then blacks can’t share my water fountain.”
Johnson said he was “so appalled by that racist diatribe” that he “chose to show the voters of Virginia how Black Brothers stand up to defend and support their Black Sisters.”
Media coverage of the sign and the activist who carried it dominated national headlines. Whether that incident will wind up swaying the race is unclear.
Ciattarelli came within 3.2 points of defeating New Jersey’s sitting Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in the state’s 2021 gubernatorial race. Throughout the election cycle, Murphy had been widely expected to cruise to victory. Although polls tightened as Election Day drew closer, the RealClearPolitics average of polls still showed Ciattarelli trailing by 7.8%.
It should also be noted that Trump outperformed polling estimates in the Garden State in 2024.
All of this is to say that both races are winnable for the GOP.
But the party must take Presler’s warning to heart. We must face the 2025 elections with the same focus on early voting and mail-in ballots as we did in 2024.
Presler concluded his message with a call to action.
Republicans, if you do not embrace early voting and mail-in voting for the upcoming Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 election, you will lose everything, and that’s gonna set us up for failure in 2026.
If you are loyal to President Trump, if you are loyal to keeping the House, if you are loyal to keeping the Senate, then you do everything in your power to elect Republicans in PA, VA, and NJ this November. … Who’s gonna help?
Let’s hope the GOP listens.
Republicans are going to lose everything this November.
Bookmark this. pic.twitter.com/3X4E2SS5Ct
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) August 30, 2025
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End mail in voting
Look what happened in 2020 when they mail ordered a patsy to sit on the hot seat while the Kenyan enjoyed an unprecedented 3rd term
I have a sweeping, permanent solution….
Use RICO to permanently abolish the Democrat Crime cabal
No other criminal enterprise would be left intact. MAGA and “Republicans” GROW A SET
Democrats conspired with hostile foreign regimes to not only import as many CRIMINAL MIGRANTS AS POSSIBLE during the Kenyan’s 3rd term, they conspired to EMPTY PRISONS AND MENTAL INSTITUTIONS and FLY THOSE PEOPLE HERE in midnight flight sponsored by our traitors in the deep state. Destinations included HPN (Westchester NY)
This is the type of thing that DIRECTLY led to the rape/murder of Jocelyn Nungary, a 12 year old Texas girl, and countless others. It’s unlikely the Democrat crime cabal could have disappeared the mountains of evidence associated with this facet of the Democrat crime cabal
RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) can apply to immigration crimes if they’re part of a pattern of racketeering activity conducted by an organized enterprise. RICO targets ongoing criminal enterprises engaging in specific predicate offenses, like fraud, extortion, or trafficking. Some immigration-related crimes, such as visa fraud, human smuggling, or document trafficking, could qualify as predicate offenses if they meet RICO’s criteria: a structured group, repeated illegal acts over time, and an impact on interstate or foreign commerce.
For example, a criminal organization systematically smuggling migrants or forging immigration documents for profit could face RICO charges. However, standalone immigration violations, like illegal entry without an organized scheme, typically wouldn’t trigger RICO. Prosecutors must prove the enterprise’s structure and a pattern (at least two predicate acts within 10 years). Penalties include up to 20 years per racketeering count, fines, and asset forfeiture.
So basically cheat like Democrats.
Nope, Scott Presler didn’t say to ‘cheat’. He is advocating getting the ballot cast into the count as early as lawfully possible to avoid d/prog (and rino) shenanigans on election day.. though this sort of Pavlovian ‘get off my lawn’ response is definitely what he’s warning against.
Where the election statutes allow early voting the GoP should embrace it and use it. Don’t wait till Election Day putting all your electoral eggs in a single basket unless you also accept the high potential for shenanigans such as:
1. ‘Sorry the printer doesn’t work’
2. ‘Gee whiz, we got wrong paper’
3. ‘Oops there’s a snag with the CPU’
4. ‘You gotta mark the ballot with a specific ink and we ran out of the special pens’
5. ‘No one told you your normal polling place is closed? ‘Well, t was a late decision and they didn’t update the website’
6. Consolidated mega polling places deliberately under equipped and understaffed to create delays and long lines.
7. Bad weather
8. ‘Oops we didn’t expect this many in person voters and ran out of ballots’
All these have occurred very recently in one or more States. I’d love it if every State adopted the election statutes and procedures we have in Alabama that prohibit mass mailing of ballots, restrict approval of requests absentee ballots and prioritize in person voting. Until y’all get that in your State then use the rules as they are written. Not doing so is like a stubborn football coach refusing to use the forward pass in games b/c ‘tradition’. The d/prog and rinos are doing enough to kneecap us already, we shouldn’t engage in self inflicted wounds out of a stubborn refusal to adapt.
In a game already rigged by Democrats you gotta play it like Democrats and cheat like f88k!!
Alabama was an all d/prog State across the board every Statewide office and every CD with massive legislative majorities. Basically it was then as CA is now. Took several decades but now it is a complete reversal. Didn’t take cheating to get there either.
Using the same lawful rules available to any candidate and any political party is not ‘cheating’. It is adapting strategy to the current rules. Good luck handing off to the FB every play b/c you refuse to have wide receivers in formation much less throw a forward pass.
All adding up to the fact that the method of voting isn’t the problem, it’s the cheating.
More like stubbornly walking into a known ambush on election day, subjecting yourself to the ‘kill zone’ set by the d/prog and rinos despite knowing when, where and likely how the ambush will occur instead of avoiding the ambush altogether. Please spare me from any leadership who demands we foolishly march deliberately into an ambush and the kill zone selected by the enemy on purpose just to prove some sort of meaningless point.
More like anticipating the ambush and taking preemptive action.
The preemptive action is using early voting/mail in voting where it is lawful to bypass the ambush.
In contrast you are insisting the GoP ignore the alternative of early/mail in voting and demanding we marching into the ambush set by d/prog and rinos of election day only voting in d/prog jurisdictions to put our heads in the noose of the shenanigans I listed above.
I’m not. I’m all in favor of early voting.
No! If early voting is available, use it.
Mail in balloting is a disaster. It’s a known disaster. There is simply no way to stop election shenanigans with mail-ins. Period. Even the idiots in Europe have figured this out. I get where Presler’s coming from: if you don’t do it and the Dems do you lose. The states he points to don’t really buttress his argument. Virginia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the deep state and New Jersey is rotten with Democrats. Also, if Republicans are too lazy to get to the polls on election day, they deserve to lose. Mail-in balloting is an electoral cancer. Stop it now.
The article isn’t about whether mail-in voting is good for the country or not; of course it isn’t.
It’s about UTILIZING early and mail-in voting so as to reduce the ability of Dems to mess up Election Day, as they have already proven is a Dem tactic used against the GOP.
Of course we should.
Have you, personally, made any efforts to change your state’s election integrity?
“ Also, if Republicans are too lazy to get to the polls on election day, they deserve to lose.”
Ridiculous comment. There are many reasons why any individual might not be able to get out on any given day. Don’t blow it. Vote early.
How about no mail voting, trying to beat the Marxists game of yeah everyone gets a mail ballot but only 40% fill them out and our minions will make up the 40% they don’t fill out.
We don’t like mail in voting and early voting out of principle but principle is not going to win the coming Nov. 25 elections where held. Democrats are eaten up with rage and they will vote accordingly. We must meet them on every front with overwhelming participation.
And they will cheat like f88k because they know power rests on them cheating like f98k! They will be out in force and have to be to over come the collapse of their political party.
I can’t think of many people who did more to put Trump back in the White House than Scott Presler. We would be well advised to listen to him.
What fries me is how this sort of advice lets other people put the tail before the horse on this issue.
For example, check out JD Tuccile’s stuff like “Most Americans Oppose Trump’s Plan To Ban Mail-In Voting.”
“It’s also very well-liked within the country. In Arizona, where I live, almost 90 percent of votes are cast early, the vast majority of them by mail.”
It’s not because we LIKE it. It’s because we’ve been told we HAVE TO, or else we will LOSE elections. Early voting is to electoral success as colonoscopy is to health. We don’t do it because we “like it.” If we could get back to a process where NOBODY did that (except the infirm and the troops overseas), that’s what we’d LIKE.
“registration” advantage
thats if you dismiss the cheating from the left ( fjb: stop the voting approx 1:34 am est.. …”it was only a minor water line breakage …A pipe burst in State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Tuesday morning, causing a four-hour delay in processing election ballots, according to deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs…Fulton County officials said repairs were made within two hours and that no ballots or equipment were impacted.
sureeee anything you say kkklefty
if the left is sooooo honest ..then why do the constantly look to change the one person one vote….or the “need” to id who the voters are
or its ok to count non citizens on the census
or
rank choice voting
Not a chance I’ll vote either early or by mail. Why on earth would I allow my ballot to spend two weeks in other people’s hands?
Hard no.
Scott delivered Pennsylvania. He’s in a tireless fight here.
But the win situation is ending mail-in voti8ng.
Even early voting in person is a problem.
The longer competed ballots are just sitting round, the longer time there is for cheating.
In person, one day voting with ABSENTEE balloting only issued for cause.
The time from vote to official count must be minimized as much as possible.
With as little human action as possible.