'Much more simple': Trump volunteer claims swing state canvassers taking it easy

Donald Trump has expressed smug confidence that he will hold onto a rapidly growing Pennsylvania county he easily won in 2020 — so much so that some of his canvassers say he's taken his foot off the gas. “They’ve been spending a lot of time on the ground here.” Five active volunteers told the website that Trump's operation had 100 to 200 regular volunteers in the county — but a Trump Force 47 captain who had volunteered for his campaigns in the past said the operation this year was far more relaxed. Trump surrogates Peter Navarro, Stephen Miller and Rep. Byron Donalds are encouraging fellow Republicans to each get 10 voters to the polls, while the candidate's message in the county Sunday was a bit more unceremonious: “If you don’t vote, you’re stupid," he said. The election is already decided in my opinion.” While some Trump volunteers are seemingly doing the bare minimum, Democrats knocked on a record 27,000 doors on Saturday alone, and they're hoping demographic changes could help cut into the former president's statewide total, even if Harris doesn't win Lancaster County. “But we will get a lot more votes out of the county than we did last time, and it’s going to cut into his margin a lot.” The county has seen thousands of younger voters move to the area from Philadelphia since 2020 with the rise in remote work, but Republicans remain confident the once rural and deeply red area is safe for Trump.