Political influencer Scott Presler will appear at an event in Bucks County on Sunday

MAGA influencer Scott Presler is focused on turning Pennsylvania red, including Bucks County purple.

Presler, a Virginia native whose activism has focused primarily on mobilizing the Republican vote through his organization Early Vote Action, registered people in Bucks while wearing a “Pennsylvania for Trump” shirt and donning an Eagles jersey , while being interviewed by Dom Giordano, a conservative interviewee from Philly. Host of the show.

With his long hair tied in a ponytail beneath a backwards baseball cap, Presler warmed up the crowd at an event at the Trump Store in Bensalem last month by touting the county's recent penchant for early and mail-in voting. And on Sunday he will join two far-right figures at an event in Newtown, just over a week after he spoke at former President Donald Trump's highly anticipated rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The collar county, where voters often split their votes, has proven crucial to winning the White House. Sunday's event, coordinated by the Doylestown Republican Social Club, is called “Power of Unity” and includes Presler, right-wing commentator Tim Pool and far-right activist Jack Posobiec.

All three people have spread unfounded conspiracy theories in the past. In September, Pool and other conservative commentators claimed they were victims of a Russian disinformation campaign after the Justice Department accused a U.S. content creation company they were associated with of never disclosing its ties to the Russian government.

Posobiec is best known for spreading a far-right conspiracy theory called “Pizzagate,” an outlandish and strange theory unfounded claim that Democrats are running a satanic child abuse ring out of a Washington pizzeria. After criticizing the Philadelphia election to a group of Michigan campaign volunteers in September, he said: “It doesn't matter who votes. It matters who counts the votes.”

And Presler spread disinformation surrounding the 2020 election and has done the same in the run-up to the 2024 election. In 2017, he gained attention for organizing “March Against Sharia – March for Human Rights” rallies across the United States while employed by ACT For America, which the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled an anti-Muslim group.

Presler, a 36-year-old who co-founded Gays for Trump, was considered a “valuable vote” by the RNC but was ultimately not hired for a job with the party, NBC News reported in March. Lara Trump, co-chair of the RNC and daughter-in-law of the former president, wanted to hire him.

She brought him on stage Saturday at the former president's return to Butler — the site of a July 13 assassination attempt — to talk about voter registration successes, pointing out that Republican registration outpaced Democrats in the counties Bucks and alfalfa exceeded. According to county voter statistics, Republicans currently have a 936-person lead in Bucks. In Luzerne, Republicans have a lead of 3,965 people.

In a statement to The Inquirer this week, she said: “Scott Presler has shown what one person can achieve when it comes to activating voters across the country. I look forward to his support as our two organizations share the same goal of getting our friends and neighbors to vote in this crucial election.”

Presler did not respond to repeated requests for an interview for this article.

Jim Worthington, the top Trump donor who owns the Newtown Sports Training & Event Center where Saturday's rally will be held, said that while he doesn't necessarily agree with the conspiracy theories pushed by Pool, Posobiec or Presler, he does The right to state them is about their First Amendment.

“They have a passion for something, and they want to discuss it, they believe in it, and that's their opinion, and that's how it should be,” said Worthington, who led Pennsylvania's delegation to the Republican National Convention and a rally for Sen. JD Vance hosted , Trump's vice president, in the same building. “I mean, no different than when the people on the other side, the Democrats, are tarnishing President Trump.”

He said Presler deserves “a lot of credit” for his voter registration efforts and his recent move to Pennsylvania so he could cast his vote for Trump in a swing state.

Presler is the GOP's “intermediary” with young voters

While Presler failed to hold an official title within the RNC, his influence on the GOP base is undeniable.

In an interview with the Alec Lace show On Butler on Saturday, the conservative host said Presler would have “a big part” in Trump's success in Pennsylvania if he wins. He has appealed to ordinary GOP voters, but also to the hunting community and the Amish community in Pennsylvania — including those who care about access to raw milk.

His actions culminated in real-life mobilization. At a recent Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre, the “MAGA Boys” said they were the “boots on the ground” to turn Pennsylvania red, the Wall Street Journal reported. If vote totals in 2024 don't match partisan registrations, “they'll have some explaining to do,” one member said.

ACT For America, the anti-Muslim group, credits itself with training Presler in “every aspect of grassroots activism, including structure, logistics, and grassroots coordination and mobilization at the local and national levels” before he was released in 2019 for unknown reasons the team said in a statement to The Inquirer.

Presler's resonance owes to the emergence of the era of influencers who readily embrace campaigns, said Brian Rosenwald, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in how media shapes popular political culture.

“He is their agent to get their share of the young people. “It’s their channel to reach a population that they can’t reach in the same way through traditional forums,” Rosenwald said.

Presler once organized a “Stop the Steal” rally in Pennsylvania

Before Presler's appearance at Trump's Butler rally, the conservative social media influencer falsely claimed that the Pennsylvania Department of State intentionally planned a maintenance of its voter registration system during the event, during which Presler and others would encourage attendees to register.

The State Department said in a statement that maintenance of the system was scheduled for September 17. Trump announced the date of his Butler rally on September 25th. The ministry eventually postponed the maintenance until after the rally ended, but did not cite this as a reason.

This isn't the first time Presler has expressed distrust in Pennsylvania's elections. Four years ago, he led a two-day “Stop the Steal” demonstration at the state Capitol with an unfounded group claimed the election was stolen. Presler said at the time that the protest was for “truth and justice” and not to support a specific candidate. He also described his intention to raise money for “an audit of the state’s vote count.”

He also attended rallies in Washington on January 6, 2021, secured VIP seats for his parents at Trump's speech at the Ellipse, and was scheduled to speak at another protest rally that was ultimately canceled, but he did not enter the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection.

“Scott Presler is not a 'base hero' – he is an election denier, far-right MAGA extremist who spreads QAnon conspiracy theories, spread lies about the 2020 election and was at the Capitol on January 6th,” the Democratic National Committee said in a statement in April.

False election narratives like the one Presler spread are aimed at delegitimizing the democratic process and laying the groundwork for future claims of election subversion, said Richard Hasen, a law professor and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at the UCLA School of Law.

“Convincing people that the other side is cheating, which increases polarization, may make people more supportive of the party they are already on,” Hasen said.

Back in Butler, Presler gave one final rallying cry to the Pennsylvania audience before leaving the stage.

“I feel it from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. I love our great country,” Presler said. “President Trump took a bullet for us. Please use your ballot and support him on Tuesday, November 5th and deliver Pennsylvania for Donald J. Trump.”