Trump Door-Knockers Gauge Voter Interest
by Jonathan Weaver
Nearly a dozen Armstrong County Republicans went door-to-door locally this past Saturday in support of U.S Presidential Candidate Donald Trump.
The effort was coordinated by the Armstrong County Republican Committee.
Armstrong GOP Field Organizer Nick Desisto said, starting about 10AM at King’s Restaurant in Hilltop Plaza, Trump supporters discussed issues and trained new volunteers in door-knocking strategies and administering election surveys.
“I kind of lucked out getting Armstrong County because Armstrong County is a pretty-solid red county. The response for Trump was very positive,” Desisto said. “It has been like that the past few months.”
A Robinson Township (Allegheny County) native, Desisto has been helping the campaign for about four months – door-knocking about 10 hours per week. At Kent State University in Ohio, Desisto majored for three years in political science before helping along the campaign trail.
“Overall, I really do like (Trump’s) message and disposition. The debate in South Carolina was when I realized this was the guy I needed to help get elected,” Desisto said.
Desisto found supporters of Senator Pat Toomey and Trump’s Supreme Court potential nominees inspire local voters.
Armstrong County Field Coordinator Tyler Cousins (who grew up in Kittanning before moving to Indiana, Pa.) also found this past weekend successful.
“Sources told me that it went fantastic,” Cousins said. “I communicate with Nick on a daily basis, and everything’s going well.”
Cousins became interested in politics while applying to colleges. He has also been assisting the campaign for about four months, and is currently a senior studying both nuclear engineering and political science at Penn State University Park.
Campaign supporters try to arrange door-knocking events in the region each weekend.
Local News | jweaver September 14, 2016
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By jd718, September 14, 2016 @ 5:57 AM
“I kind of lucked out getting Armstrong County because Armstrong County is a pretty-solid red county.”
Really, Is this where the Lies begin, last time anyone dared to look Armstrong County was split almost 50-50 along Political Party Lines.
Reality is that President Obama lost in Armstrong County in the last Presidential Election. However, The Democrats Won the state of Pennsylvania in the Presidential Election and have Won this state for the Last 30+ Years and Clinton currently leads Trump in the Polls of this state.
At this time a long list of Prominent Republicans including former secretary of State and retired four-star general Colin Powell called Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “a national disgrace” and let us not forget Trumps Russian links!
Seriously, Donald Trump and The Republican Party are Unfit to run this Great Nation!
Vote Blue 2016……
By jd718, September 14, 2016 @ 6:14 AM
Armstrong County, If you really want to work on something, try working on the 48.9% of school children in the Armstrong County School District living below the Federal Poverty Level! Now, That’s a Real Disgrace!
Vote Blue in 2016
Donald Trump and the Childhood Poverty Levels in Armstrong County are a National Disgrace!!
By jd718, September 14, 2016 @ 6:24 AM
Armstrong County, If you really want to work on something try working on the 48.9% childhood Poverty Level in the Armstrong School District!
I find both Donald Trump and the number of School Children living below the Federal Poverty Level in Armstrong County Unacceptable for this Great Nation we live in!! Unacceptable!!
By jerry6, September 14, 2016 @ 6:45 AM
There is a new sandwich out called The Trump. It is full of Bologna and Russian dressing.
By Just sayin, September 14, 2016 @ 7:07 AM
Bravo, jd718!!
Annies, get your guns if those S-O-Bs get on your property! Better watch out on whose doors you knock!!
Aren’t the millions of sight-pollution-Trump signs enough?
Hey, David or @Administration: where’s the BALANCE of press? Unprofessional, a bit, are ye not? Biased, are ye not? You’re the editor, are ye not? I know; “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.”
Did you attend a journalism class?
By Just sayin, September 14, 2016 @ 7:16 AM
Head knocker wannabees, don’t knock on my door.
Put your American flags out; the Trump lovers/Jehovah Witnesses are a comin’!!
Only go to those with Confederate flags.
What is this precious, GREAT country coming to? Are the Trump-loving Repubs being affected by the magnetic field, or what??? Is cell phone usage damaging their common sense and brain activity?
Go off to some island and leave us alone…the Island of Misfits… Christmas is coming soon.
By mad-2010, September 14, 2016 @ 8:08 AM
“Overall, I really do like (Trump’s) message and disposition.” Damn, Talk about Disjointed Views!
What message do you like? The one where Trump asks Russian hackers to hack the DNC? Or do like the one where Trump admires the Russian President? Or better yet the message that he (Trump) knows more about ISIS than the American Generals? (Let’s Note here that Trump was Never in the US Military)Yet still, Trumps message about he doesn’t like captured American soldiers, he likes them uncaptured as if somehow they had a Choice, Ridiculous NON-SENSE!
Let us remember this statement about the Likes of Trumps message comes from a Purported Kent State educated man! Also, let us remember that just because you are educated it doesn’t Guarantee that you (Desisto) have Good Common Sense or that you are not Crazy!
Donald Trump is Unfit to run this Country, UNFIT!
By worthingtonman, September 14, 2016 @ 8:13 AM
@jd
Obama has been president going on eight years. What has he done to improve children in poverty? It has grown hugely…. Folks on food stamps have grown hugely….. Why should we give the blues four more years of that? Those polls are tightening up. Should be a raucous fall election cycle
Funny how all I see the dems do on here is trash Trump, who was not my first choice, and never proclaim the virtues of Clinton.
By mad-2010, September 14, 2016 @ 8:34 AM
Hold the Presses, Hold the Presses!
Newsweek Teases Trump Cover Story It Says Could Change Election! Heading to the News Stand! This should be Good….
By jorn jensen, September 14, 2016 @ 11:01 AM
Wow. 3 immediate comments from jd718 on this story - and no one else. I’ll break my own rule of not reading liberal venom, and read jd718’s liberal venom.
Appears that jd718 is a typical confused liberal - “The democrats Won the state of Pennsylvania in the presidential election and have Won this state for the last 30 years” Then you go on to state, “If you really want to work on something, try working on the 48.9% of school children……living below the Federal Poverty Level.”
Let me try to put that together. The democratic party always seems to tout itself as ‘working for the poor’. If that is the case, why are the poor still the poor if democrats did such great work in Pennsylvania for the last 30 years? By now, the poor should have been well-lifted out of poverty.
When you wake up, jd718, realize that the democratic party is what keeps Pennsylvania in the background. The unions and democrats go hand-in-hand to control this state. We don’t have right-to work like Indiana and Michigan have - need a job? Go there. They’re hiring.
The operating engineers union recently donated $2 million to Hillary’s campaign. Interesting. Wonder whom the UMWA will donate to? Hillary, who has promised to end coal mining jobs and coal companies? That is sort of like suicide. Maybe ‘collecting’ is better than ‘digging’?
Bill Clinton goes into he Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh and tells the people that Hillary needs them. Do they need Hillary? Seems that Hillary needs a doctor.
I won’t go knocking, door to door, for Trump. I’ll simply vote for him and expect intelligent, informed voters to do the same. They can do their own homework.
Like Trump,I agree that Hillary needs to get well and get back on the campaign trail. As much as she lies, the dead bodies left behind, the emails, Benghazi, Bill’s womanizing, the basket of deplorables, on and on, we can easily beat her in the election. We might have a tougher time beating some replacement that the democratic party comes up with.
Get well Hillary and lie on!
By jd718, September 14, 2016 @ 11:32 AM
Worthy, We should start with the Presidents approval rating as we speak today. 50% Worthy, that’s right up there with any, any Repub President at this time in their term! Now What Worthy?
Did you forget, and the Repubs are good at being forgetful, that GW Bush left office with the country going into a Deep Recession, That’s right a Recession, Try 8 Million jobs lost in a couple months! Should I ask you now when did you arrive on the this Planet Earth? Were you not here when the Repub GW Bush left office?
To answer your question: What has Obama and his Administration done to improve child poverty?
(Let me note here that you somehow took my post about poverty in Armstrong County and out of context I may add, to include what Obama has done, strange.)
However, As of April of this year, 2016.
“The private sector has added jobs for 73 consecutive months — some 14.4 million new jobs in all — the longest period of sustained job growth on record. Unemployment, which peaked at 10 percent the year Obama took office, the highest it had been since 1983, under Ronald Reagan, is now 5 percent, lower than when Reagan left office. The budget deficit has fallen by roughly $1 trillion during his two terms. And overall U.S. economic growth has significantly outpaced that of every other advanced nation.”
As of today according to RealClearPolitics the approval rating for the GOP Congress is a Dismal, Dismal 12.5% that’s just Pathetic!
How can you with any Clear Mind ask anyone to support your obviously Dysfunctional Republican Party That left the Country in Shambles the last time there was a Republican President is beyond Coherent!
Why should we give the blues four more years of that? You ask?
Because the present day Republican Party is a Sad and Dismal Failure and has a Pathetic Candidate that admires the Russian President and puts down Our Military! The Republican Party, At This Time is Unfit to Run This Country, Period!
By jorn jensen, September 14, 2016 @ 11:32 AM
Just Sprayin, you’re beating on David Croyle for this article? You DO know that David will publish an opinion that you would provide?
Back some years ago, a liberal professor lady going by the pseudonym Nellie Bly, submitted an opinion piece stating reasons that she was voting for Obama in 2012. David published it. He’d do the same for you. Nellie Bly did submit her real name - that would probably be a problem for you.
“Annies, get your guns”? Just Sprayin, remember, don’t be a hypocrite - liberals hate guns and the 2nd amendment. Stay focused.
By jd718, September 14, 2016 @ 12:04 PM
Worthy, What has he done to improve children in poverty? It has grown hugely…. Folks on food stamps have grown hugely….. Do have any stats to go with your claims? I will wait!
By mad-2010, September 14, 2016 @ 12:25 PM
Just read most of the Newsweek article! I will say this, if your put Don-The-Con in office as the President America as you know it Will, and I repeat Will have big problems from that Presidency, Seriously!
Vote Blue in 2016
Read and judge for yourself……
By scott_starr, September 14, 2016 @ 3:04 PM
@jd718 we know who the liar is ( take a look in the mirror), while the split is very close in terms of party regisration:
D 45.08
R 45.6
Let’s look at Presidential voting, it’s not even close:
2000 Bush 58.2%
2004 Bush 60.0
2008 McCain 61.6
2012 Romney 67.9
NOT EVEN CLOSE for 16 YEARS
Now, you know why Desisto said Armstrong is “pretty solid red”. Sorry the facts got in your way.
Oh, and Allegheny County PA had 10,140 people “double registered”.
Now we know why Voter ID is not favored by Democraps.
Countries such as Mexico, Honduras, India, Libya have Voter ID Laws. I guess Democrats are not able to get an ID in the USA, but folks from Developing Countries don’t seem to have a problem…
That says a lot.
Democrats are afraid to speak out against Hillary, they may end up getting Vince Foster’d.
Let’s look at Hillary’s “accomplishments:
1. Expanded Medical Care for Children..
Really ? That was T. Kennedy and Orrin Hatch. Hillary had NO role in writing the legislation, and her hubby was against this legislation. How valiant that she is taking credit for the work of a Drunk and Mormon.
2. Foreign Policy ?
Really ???
Russia, Libya, Syria,Egypt
I am highly confident that Hillary can do for the USA what she did for Syria, Libya and Egypt.
hillary is the personification of MAFA = Mistaking Activity for Achievement.
Let’s hope she doesn’t spontaneously overheat again watching a You Tube video.
Hey, I hear Venezuela is looking for a few good people, that seems like the perfect place for you and your ilk.
Schumpeter 2016!
By goober, September 14, 2016 @ 5:20 PM
i love how people are scared of trump im definetly voting for him at least you will still have tax and spend wolf
By mad-2010, September 15, 2016 @ 5:31 AM
Wman, “Funny how all I see the dems do on here is trash Trump”
How Hypocritical can the Repubs be all you did for the first 3 years of the Presidents term was bash him, you guys are just plan Bizarre! Like Trump!
You want the virtues of the Democratic Candidate, here, Clinton can and will run this Country of Ours Properly, and she is not Insane like Trump. If you want a list of her Policies do the research yourself, she has a website.
Vote Blue 2016
The Polls are tightening up, you’re Funny! Which Polls are you talking about? The ones that include third party candidates? Try the ones of registered voters, pal! lol
By Just sayin, September 15, 2016 @ 6:14 AM
War-thing-Tin-Man:
Oh, we have sung Clinton’s praises…been there;done that. Has your memory been left all alone in the moonlight?
She has plans instead of pipe dreams.
The unemployment level has gone down under President Obama. He can’t control that the WHOLE world is in economic decline. Neither can he fix (in 8 years) the problem of poverty that has been going on for centuries.
Old Trump proclaims no more war on ONE hand, then says the first day he is in office he’ll get rid of ISIS! How-with “sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows?” He’s magically delusional.
By Just sayin, September 15, 2016 @ 9:11 AM
Jensen and Hedges: Liberals DO NOT hate guns and the 2nd Amendment. You are magically delusional.
By Just sayin, September 15, 2016 @ 9:15 AM
The Republicans created a committee to grill Clinton.
“…opposition research book, called ‘The Complete Guide to the Benghazi Select Committee,’ which the super PAC is distributing to media outlets… It spells out the millions of dollars in costs associated with the committee’s investigation and takes aim at individual Republican members of the committee — highlighting one GOP member’s ethics probe, accusing another of giving credence to suggestions that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and listing examples of Republicans fundraising off the committee’s work.”
From The New York Times:
Concerning hearings:
“Representative Elijah E. Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the Benghazi committee, offered a full-throated defense of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s honor, apologizing to her for his colleagues who suggested that she did not care for the people who died on her watch.”
“I also want to begin by apologizing for my Republican colleagues who apparently want to write your answers for you, or testify for you because I think it fits into their outlandish narrative of what happened.” [Quote from Representative Linda Sánchez, Democrat of California, criticizing Republican colleagues on Committee as she is addressing Hillary Clinton]
“Mrs. Clinton explained that she wished there were a more reliable force of armed contractors at the compound and more help from the Central Intelligence Agency on the ground.”
“Mrs. Clinton went on to say that she was not sure that anything could have been done to stop the attackers considering the way the attack played out. As for her own responsibility, Mrs. Clinton said she was involved with recommending Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens for the job and working on Libya policy before and after the fall of the regime.”
“’I was responsible for quite a bit, Congressman,” she [Clinton] said. “I was not responsible for specific security requests.’”
“Mrs. Clinton said that she was proud of the role she had, but that ultimately President Obama made the final decision on Libya. She said it was not unusual for someone in her position to explain foreign policy to the public.”
“Hillary Rodham Clinton said in her opening statements that any questioning about the attacks in Benghazi should strive to dignify the memories of the Americans who died there, and she argued that the United States should not retreat from a volatile and violent world.
After sharing some memories of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the attacks, Mrs. Clinton reminded the committee that she had already taken responsibility for what happened. She said she had tried to put reforms in place to keep diplomats safer.
Mrs. Clinton said that diplomats would always face risks abroad and that there would never be perfect security. She also recalled previous attacks on American diplomats in Lebanon and in Africa, noting that Republicans and Democrats managed bipartisan responses to those incidents.”
“‘I’m here to honor those we lost,’” Mrs. Clinton said, after listing the several investigations and inquiries into the incident. “’My challenge to you, members of this committee, is the same challenge I put to myself. Let’s be worthy of the trust the American people have bestowed upon us.’”
By Just sayin, September 15, 2016 @ 9:16 AM
Hillary will:
• Strengthen background checks and close dangerous loopholes in the current system.
• Hold irresponsible dealers and manufacturers accountable.
• Keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, domestic abusers, other violent criminals, and the severely mentally ill.
By jd718, September 15, 2016 @ 10:17 AM
Snotty, What that post means is Jack! Nice try at Deflection, because that’s all you got! Trumps Lunatic and you Sheep all know it! LOL
Fact: The Democratic Party has Carried this state in the Presidential Elections for the last 30+ years! And it will Carry this state in this years Presidential Election! LOL
Keep talking out of Uranus, Snotty! LOL
Vote Blue 2016
By jd718, September 15, 2016 @ 10:47 AM
JJ, Deflection, Deflection, Deflection.
“If you really want to work on something, try working on the 48.9% of school children……living below the Federal Poverty Level.”
JJ, there is no 48.9% of school children living in poverty in Pa. That would be Armstrong County maybe when You Wake-Up you can Read the statement Correctly and then respond, Pathetic, just like Trumps claim to know more about ISIS than the American Generals! LMAO It Seems You All are Delusional!
JJ, You think you can explain The Newsweek article about ties between the Trump Organization and foreign powers that could pose “serious conflicts of interest” should he be elected. Let us see if you can deflect that one! LOL Trump is UNFIT to run this Great Nation, UNFIT!
By mad-2010, September 15, 2016 @ 11:20 AM
To address All you Repubs at one time after scanning your posts, You Got Nothing!
Don-The-Con is A Disgrace to this Country and is UNFIT to be the Leader of this Free Nation and The Republican party is also at this time a National Disgrace and may never recover to what it once stood for, Sad!!
By mad-2010, September 15, 2016 @ 11:22 AM
Goober, With that username, I understand!
By mad-2010, September 15, 2016 @ 11:38 AM
You Repubs use a lot of off topic Fill-ins with your posts now days, Why? Lmao……
Hey, Did you learn that stuff from Flip-Flop Don? LOL Repub = Russians R US! LOL
Hey, I know more than the Generals do!
Putin Loves me, this I know so the constitution tells me so! Trump sings this to himself ever night! LOL Vote Blue 2016
By mad-2010, September 15, 2016 @ 12:02 PM
Newsweek article on Trump: “Never before has an American candidate for president had so many financial ties with American allies and enemies, and never before has a business posed such a threat to the United States. If Donald Trump wins this election and his company is not immediately shut down or forever severed from the Trump family, the foreign policy of the United States of America could well be for sale.”
Hey Repubs aka Russians-R-US looks like your guy Don-The-Con is just Trouble for This Great Nation, and who needs Trouble? America doesn’t need Trump! Never Trump, Never!! LOL Putin Loves me this I know! The Donald’s Mantra! LOL