Like Biden, Trump has visited Pennsylvania twice this year.
Philadelphia:
After weeks of shadowboxing in separate constituencies across the U.S., Democratic and Republican leaders are making closing pitches in Pennsylvania on Saturday for next week’s midterm elections. At some point, they find themselves on the same battlefield.
Rallying alongside former boss Barack Obama, President Joe Biden urges Democrats to deploy mighty guns to build energy, spread across the nation, and reverse the recent rightward shift in polls. I hope
And in a split-screen preview of a potential 2020 presidential rematch, the Midwestern state also plays host to Biden’s predecessor and bitter political rival Donald Trump.
Six years after leaving the White House, Obama is still the party’s richest star, with Democratic candidate John Fetterman battling Republican TV doctor Mehmet Oz in the crucial Senate race. Start your day in Pittsburgh with
Biden and Obama then show up in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is the historic birthplace of American independence, with the 44th and 46th presidents winning voters from suburbs, a key base of Democratic support.
Keystone State favored Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016, but voted for Biden in 2020.
Strategists from both parties believe the side that wins the post vacated by the departure of Republican Pat Toomey will have a majority in the Senate next year.
Fetterman and Oz had an hour-long sparring session in the state capital Harrisburg 10 days earlier, but Fetterman suffered a stroke in May and was still struggling with communication problems after the campaign was disrupted.
“Chipping Away”
“The month-to-month change in support for Oz is not statistically significant,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Poll Research Institute.
“The overall trend suggests he’s slipping away from some voters who aren’t entirely happy with him, but that mostly happened before the debate.”
In Latrobe, just a few miles east of Pittsburgh, Trump is looking to solidify his support in the region, where he made big gains in 2016 and 2020.
Pennsylvania balances power among its 50 governors, voters who not only control the Senate but also influence most aspects of voters’ lives, from education and health care to voting. It is also seen as something that must be won. right.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro has spotlighted the peripheral views of his far-right opponent, State Sen. Doug Mastriano, who was implicated in Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. I came.
Trump-backed Mastriano’s victory will give prominent election deniers oversight over the state’s voting system in the 2024 presidential election.
Like Biden, Trump has visited Pennsylvania twice this year, most recently in early September when he held a rally for Oz and Mastriano in Wilkes Barre.
The 76-year-old mogul has already baselessly claimed that the state election was “rigged,” echoing his false claims that his own 2020 defeat was the result of widespread fraud. There is
“With Biden’s approval ratings plummeting, Pennsylvania crime soaring, and Pennsylvanians facing a 74% hike in kerosene prices and record inflation, winter is just weeks away,” Trump’s office said in a statement. ‘ said.
“The America First movement offers Keystone State an alternative vision of America, including safe streets, cheap gas, low inflation and a thriving American economy.”
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