Pennsylvania’s election will likely come down to the wire on Tuesday, meaning support from the commonwealth’s large but traditionally private Amish community could make a difference.

The Amish-Mennonite community has long been a reliably conservative group, given its devout faith, humility, and unwillingness to engage with aspects of contemporary societal norms such as driving and cell phone use.

Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., the first Amish-born member of Congress, said he’s seeing real change lately.

“You have a minority of Amish who are now farming and farming. They ran out of land in Lancaster County a long time ago. So there is a new generation of Amish who are business owners,” he said.

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“So they become much more politically involved than their parents.”

A report from Elizabethtown College estimates that 90,000 Amish live in Pennsylvania and 84,000 in Ohio, in addition to significant populations in Indiana, Wisconsin, New York and Missouri.

Smucker said there are 1,500 to 2,000 new voter registrants in his district who are Amish, adding he expects thousands more to vote this cycle.

Two former presidents – George W. Bush and Donald Trump – have actively reached out to the community, which generally does not vote due to privacy practices.

Bush visited Smoketown during the 2004 campaign and met with Amish leaders without photographers out of respect for religious practices.

With the exception of Democrat James Buchanan, a Greencastle native who had a residence in the city of Lancaster, Bush was the first president since George Washington to visit at least twice during his term.

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“We hate the abortion issue,” farmer Sam Stoltzfus told The Associated Press during Bush’s visit. “You could hold up a dead mouse with the sign ‘I love Bush’ and we would probably think twice about stomping on that mouse.”

In contrast to Bush’s low-key visit, Trump held a raucous meeting in Manheim in 2016. Men in traditional Amish clothing could be seen throughout the room cheering the mogul’s pitch and criticism of Hillary Clinton.

On criticism that Trump’s New York bombast doesn’t suit the humble Lancaster, Smucker said many Amish “love” Trump because of his small government platform.

Because faith is at the core of Amish life, they also appreciate Trump’s own focus on religious freedom. That focus, he said, also reflects the priorities of many other conservatives outside Lancaster.

Smucker said that while Bush and Trump have had most of the Amish’s attention, the Amish were very politically active in the 1950s, when mandatory age-based education was an issue for young people who often returned to farming.

Today there are Trump signs on some farms and the occasional clip of a horse and buggy taking down Old Philly Pike in Bird-in-Hand.

Many Fridays, Republican activist Scott Presler registered voters at the Green Dragon Farmers Market in Ephrata, where he told Fox News Digital that the Amish he interacted with were very fervent in their support of Trump.

In a tweet, Presler also pointed to Democratic officials investigating Amish farmer Amos Miller for his raw milk sales. The case drew national attention from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., among others, who called the lawsuit “shameful.”

Donald Trump Jr. also denounced a raid on Miller’s property, saying he “can’t be the only person sick of this s—.”

Asked whether the administration’s confrontations with Miller have sparked new political enthusiasm, Smucker said other dairy farmers have found ways to comply with the law, but the intrusion into Miller’s business was not well taken.

“Yes, Amos Miller was a good example of that. But there are plenty of others that the Amish can point to as well,” he said.

The Amish first arrived from Germany in the 18th century, when many Germans landed in Philadelphia and started a diaspora throughout Pennsylvania.

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The Amish moved west toward Lancaster, while other “Pennsilfaanish” moved north into the Lehigh Valley, settling in places with ethnic names like Hamburg, Heidelberg, Neffs, and Seisholtzville.

Today, Lancaster is a little less quiet than traditional, with an explosion of tourism and new residents who are “English,” as the Amish call those outside their sect, since the turn of the century.

Smucker said he was born at the age of 10 into an Old Order family, the strictest of the sect, who wore civilian clothes, spoke Pennsylvania German, and drove buggies.

He suggested that his own story illustrates how Amish values ​​align well with conservative principles and those of Trump.

After completing the Amish education, which ends around ninth grade, Smucker took a night job hanging drywall to finance private Christian school tuition to complete his studies.

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and an Amish man at a Trump event. (Getty)

“That was the deal,” he said of his time at Lancaster Mennonite School.

He later purchased a new company from a sibling for $1,000 and developed it into a regional leader in construction and commercial contracting.

“I talk about it as what we think of as the American dream,” he said.

‘It doesn’t matter where you start. You know, if you work hard…if you follow the rules, you have a very good chance of getting ahead in this country of ours.

“It’s the idea of ​​strong individual responsibility, a strong family unit and then a strong local community or local church. And if you have all that in order, you don’t need a big government. And that’s exactly how the Amish look at it. That.”

Fox News Digital has also reached out to the Lancaster County Democratic Committee for comment.