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We went to Pennsylvania to ask voters how they’re feeling. Here’s what we learned
NPR ^ | July 30, 2024 | Obed Manuel, Steve Inskeep

Posted on 07/30/2024 5:54:10 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Who’s going to win?

Voters in a handful of battleground swing states will decide whether former President Donald Trump will return to the White House or if Democrats’ gamble of replacing President Biden with Vice President Harris as their nominee will keep him out.

A Morning Edition team visited Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs to hear from voters in Pennsylvania about how they’re feeling about the revamped race. We knocked on doors, visited local parks and attractions and even attended a family dinner.

Voter turnout here in Allegheny County was critical to Biden winning the state four years ago. More people voted than in 2016 and, even in towns that Biden lost, he still picked up support that got him across the finish line.

Pennsylvania narrowly went for Trump in 2016, breaking its run of voting for the Democratic presidential nominee since 1992. His message resonated with working-class voters here, where the coal, steel and manufacturing industries have been in decline for decades.

On our visit, we learned that plenty of enthusiasm and support for Trump remains.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: alleghenycounty; defundnpr; defundpbs; election; harris; mediawingofthednc; npr; obedmanuel; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; pbs; pennsylvania; pittsburgh; steveinskeep; trump
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Not bad for NPR, I guess, but they felt they had to get this in:

Some conservatives have incorrectly claimed that Harris was assigned to be Biden’s “Border Czar.” The vice president was tasked with examining causes of migration in 2021, primarily from Mexico and Central America.

1 posted on 07/30/2024 5:54:10 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Gaslighting all around.


2 posted on 07/30/2024 5:55:45 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Cherry-picked interviews chosen to allow them to tell the story they wanted to tell.


3 posted on 07/30/2024 5:58:49 AM PDT by motor_racer ("Show me the man and I'll show you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria, J. Stalin Deputy Premier)
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NPR? Bwahahahahaha. I wonder what silly "sounds" they play behind the intro to the report intended to fool their naive listeners that they were really in PA? NPR is sooooooooo yesterday 1930s Soviet Russia.
4 posted on 07/30/2024 5:58:50 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Some conservatives have incorrectly claimed that Harris was assigned to be Biden’s “Border Czar.” The vice president was tasked with examining causes of migration in 2021, primarily from Mexico and Central America.

It's incredible how hard they are working - and in concert; some things never change - to revise history.

By November, their target audience will be convinced they are telling the truth, gaslighting and the 'stupid' being what they are.

Sadly, there are no Congressional hearings on the collusion between legs-up, the msm et al to hide biden's decline.

The media seem to have gotten off scott-free; that's a problem.

5 posted on 07/30/2024 6:00:09 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Some conservatives incorrectly labeled her as the border czar”? Liars!


6 posted on 07/30/2024 6:01:00 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

So NPR, funded with taxpayer dollars, is making sure it can do whatever is necessary to promote Harris. It is time to defund NPR.


7 posted on 07/30/2024 6:03:47 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: Ge0ffrey

Biden, on television, called her the Border Czar on many occasions. The truth is not in these people.


8 posted on 07/30/2024 6:08:28 AM PDT by abbastanza
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Wow! They **even** visited a family dinner! How exotic of them!

And it was **fraud** that determined Biden’s steal, not turnout.


9 posted on 07/30/2024 6:11:59 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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Can anyone make screen shots of this?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56516332


10 posted on 07/30/2024 6:19:49 AM PDT by Nifty
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Here.....

Announcing Ms Harris’s appointment as his immigration czar, Mr Biden told reporters and officials at the White House: “She’s the most qualified person to do it, to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle [Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador], and the countries that are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks - stemming the migration to our southern border”. - BBC 3/24/2021


11 posted on 07/30/2024 6:21:15 AM PDT by Nifty
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I remember during the 2016 election, when the “grab ‘em by the...” comment was making the rounds, NPR, in a live broadcast, was at a Trump convention and asked a woman how she could support Trump after she learned of that remark. She gave the best answer of anyone in that entire election:

“I’m voting for president, not husband.” 🤣


12 posted on 07/30/2024 6:21:48 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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even in towns that Biden lost, he still picked up support that got him across the finish line.

Translation: Truckloads of support from the town of Philadelphia.

13 posted on 07/30/2024 6:23:22 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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I used to listen to NPR sometimes on my 3 hour round trip. I listened to it for comic relief. I just saw it as a bunch of 20/30-sometings giving their breathy and “calm” voice trying to sound smart, when they sounded ignorant and indoctrinated.


14 posted on 07/30/2024 6:23:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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I used to listen to NPR sometimes on my 3 hour round trip. I listened to it for comic relief. I just saw it as a bunch of 20/30-sometings giving their breathy and “calm” voice trying to sound smart, when they sounded ignorant and indoctrinated.

That stuff impressed me when I was in my 20’s I grew out of it.


15 posted on 07/30/2024 6:24:26 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Note the “alleged assassination attempt” line. It isn’t alleged. It happened NPR! WTF?!

-SB


16 posted on 07/30/2024 6:27:37 AM PDT by Snowybear (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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From the BBC article you linked:

"Dealing with what we need to do around aid in a way that is about developing those countries so that we also deal with the cause of why people are coming into our country," she [Harris] said.

This imbecile, this useless, opportunistic moron, has a decent chance of "winning" the election in November. We are mere months from "Idiocracy".

17 posted on 07/30/2024 6:34:59 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If you look at the news reports from March, 2021, it was reported that she was appointed to deal with the volume of illegal immigration. The question is whether NBC, CBS and Reuters got it wrong. I don’t think so.


18 posted on 07/30/2024 6:57:37 AM PDT by Spok
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

19 posted on 07/30/2024 7:03:51 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: abbastanza

That’s correct, lefties lie about everything and cannot be trusted at all.


20 posted on 07/30/2024 7:05:56 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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