Mercedes Schlapp, Trump’s former White House communications director, and her husband, Matt, a veteran conservative activist, were up next. “Choo choo!” the audience roared on command. “When I say ‘all aboard,’ you say ‘choo choo!’” “Are we all on the Trump train?” Diamond asked. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate who is five years older than Trump, for being old enough to need “Social Security.” The Trump-loving YouTube personalities known as Diamond and Silk kicked off the event with a standup routine of sorts that included quips about impeachment and mocking Vermont Sen. And the result may depend, in part, on how voters view impeachment.Īttendees were treated to bright orange jack-o’-lantern editions of the president’s trademark “Make America Great Again” hats and speeches from four stars of the unique Trump media ecosystem.
That slim margin ensures the state - which went to the Democrats in 2012 - will be hotly contested in 2020. Overall, he won Pennsylvania by a little over 44,000 votes. Here in bucolic Lancaster County, Trump was ahead by nearly 20 percent. The state’s three biggest cities all went for Hillary Clinton. Trump’s victory was largely owed to rural areas. Much like the rest of the country, the state has deep internal divisions. He was sent to the White House by the Electoral College thanks to key battleground states like Pennsylvania. The recent history of this part of Pennsylvania shows the fault lines that have erupted around the country since Trump narrowly won the 2016 election. While polls show that almost half the country - including over 10 percent of Republicans and about 46 percent of independents - supports impeachment, everyone in the crowd at Wednesday night’s event who spoke with Yahoo News viewed the investigation as a grand conspiracy. Trump’s America has its own view of impeachment. Cynthia Lane, right, and her friend Joyce at a "Halloween Witch Hunt Party" hosted by the Trump campaign in Manheim, Pa., on Wednesday night.