“My name is Ernie. I am here as a representative of a small town called Charleroi, PA, which you may have heard about here on the news recently,” truck driver Ernie Merritt told a Trump campaign rally in western Pennsylvania, last September. 

“Over half of our town is now filled with Haitian immigrants and illegal immigrants that were brought in and are taking our jobs away. That there is a nation-killing practice,” Merritt continued, “Which is brought in by the federal government and, specifically, the Biden-Harris administration.