GOP phenom who helped Trump win Pennsylvania zeroes in on New Jersey

“We are not stopping. We are not slowing down.”

Those are words from a press statement released December 2 from Early Vote Action (EVA), the wildly effective Republican Political Action Committee (PAC) that helped Donald Trump flip counties in  – and ultimately win – the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, securing his bid for the White House.

Now, EVA founder Scott Presler, 36, has set his sights on New Jersey.

“New Jersey is trending to the right,” the conservative activist told the New York Post last week. “There’s momentum. We have already rehired 23 staff. So whereas Republican parties in the past will pack up, go home, not renew contracts, Early Vote Action already right now, in December of 2024, has staff on the ground.”

New Jersey is ripe for the picking, Presler believes, with Kamala Harris winning the Garden State by only six points, compared to Biden’s win in 2020 by 16 points.

EVA’s website says its activists achieve their mission by using “proven methods of voter contact – handwritten postcards & letters, text messages, phone calls, and, of course, boots on the ground.” 

In the coming months, Presler told the Post “thousands” of EVA volunteers would be traveling throughout the state.

“You’re going to see us at New Jersey truck stops . . . You’re going to see us at gun shows and gun stores courting Second Amendment voters,” he said. “You’re going to see us knocking on doors at fraternity houses and sorority houses. You’re going to see us going to American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars halls courting veteran votes. And you’re also going to see us at Wildwood Boardwalk.” 

“We are going to use the Pennsylvania model of voter registration and not reinvent the wheel, but just take all of those things we learned and apply them to New Jersey,” the conservative influencer also told Fox News Digital. “And we’re going to play it smarter, not harder.” 

Presler explained a huge obstacle EVA worked to break down was bringing conservatives around to the idea of mail-in voting and early voting, “understanding our all-of-the-above approach to ultimately trying to get Pennsylvania to swing in Donald Trump’s favor.”

Overall, his “secret sauce” to winning Pennsylvania in 2024 was putting an end to the “proverbial bleeding” in big cities and making sure voters in rural areas turned out.

With the Post’s report of EVA’s “more than $2.2 million in the bank and no debts,” Presler has set his sights on the governor’s race in New Jersey, where, in 2021, GOP businessman Jack Ciattarelli came within four points of defeating Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.

After Trump’s decisive victory in 2024, Ciattarelli is planning to run again. Though Presler is not officially endorsing him, the activist says he will back whoever wins the GOP primary in June.

“Scott’s going to be in an excellent position to take a great many voters and register them Republican,” Ciattarelli told the Post.

EVA was launched in 2023 with a mission of registering Republicans to vote and getting them to commit to cast their ballots – whether early, by mail, as absentees, or on Election Day itself. 

“The EVA network has dramatically shifted voter registration totals in counties across America in favor of Republicans,” the PAC touts, and, in its press statement, says it plans to continue its fight “to achieve electoral victories in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, & Nevada over the next two years”:

In previous cycles, the Republican campaigns & committees left town after major elections – Early Vote Action is staying put and continuing the registration work that delivers results.

We are a 24/7/365 organization, and we know that the work to win elections is done months, if not years, before the elections even hit most voters’ radars.

EVA’s round-the-clock efforts paid off: during the 2024 election campaign, 74 field staff “registered and mobilized over 50,000 new voters in Pennsylvania, and our volunteers buttressed this with thousands more, helping deliver the Keystone State and thus the White House.”

Democrats, EVA warns, expect Republicans to sit back after a landslide victory in 2024. But the group remains committed to its voter registration work that features its “coordinators, captains, and volunteers … collecting ‘Commit to Vote’ signatures so our team can continue to deliver in less publicized elections.”

“Our staff are going to help New Jersey, and after we help New Jersey in 2025, we’re going to ask New Jersey and say, ‘Hey, will you come across the border legally and help Pennsylvania with our gubernatorial election in 2026?’” Presler told Fox News Digital.