Posted on 10/19/2024 10:59:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In 2008, Barack Obama and his new running mate, Joe Biden, kicked off their general-election campaign in Beaver County, Pa., a culturally conservative area northwest of Pittsburgh where the shuttering of steel mills years earlier still stung.
In 2020, Mr. Biden was in Beaver County hours before Election Day to make his closing argument. And in August, the first stop for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on a Western Pennsylvania bus tour was in Beaver County.
Each time, the Democrats were angling for the loyalties of the working-class, predominantly white voters who live in Beaver County and similar areas across Western Pennsylvania and the industrial Midwest. Each time, the party faced more skepticism and suspicion.
No longer dreaming of winning in such places, Democrats are simply trying to avoid the kinds of staggering losses that helped doom Hillary Clinton in 2016, and to keep pace with Mr. Biden’s slightly improved 2020 margins.
Their goal in white working-class areas sounds modest but in reality is enormously complicated: lose by less.
“The race is really close,” said Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Pennsylvania Democrat who managed to win Beaver County in his 2022 run for governor and, along with other top Democrats, has campaigned for Ms. Harris in tough blue-collar and rural territory. “Four, five, six hundred more votes in a place like Beaver County could be a real difference maker.”
In more than 30 interviews across Beaver and neighboring areas this week, where Republican voter registration is booming, the resistance to Ms. Harris was obvious as voters vented concerns about inflation and immigration. Residents blanketed their yards with Trump signs, and at...
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Pennsylvania is such a mess’: Inside Team Harris’ unusual levels of finger-pointing
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Losing is winning.”
A modest loss could be a win for Harris? What is modest?
In round numbers 2020 in Beaver County:
Trump 58%
Biden 40%
That’s close to landslide territory.
Will Harris even hit 40% of the vote like Biden? Hard to believe she will.
Just more propaganda from the NY Times trying pump up Dems and keep Harris’ name in the news.
I'm waiting for Trump to get something like 280 or more votes in the Electoral College.
The media will say that the 2024 election was a modest loss for Harris.
The media will explain that a modest loss is a win for Harris.
So Harris really is the winner.
So the Democrat Insurrection will be fully justified. Because Trump lost.
(Men make the strangest requests)
Alternate headline: In Beaver County, Pennsylvania, a Close Shave Could Be a Win for Harris
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