This fall, Pennsylvania is living up to its nickname as the Keystone State.

Both the Harris and Trump presidential campaign see its 19 electoral votes as key to getting to the 270 needed to win.

In addition, Pennsylvania contests could determine control of Capitol Hill.

So it's where we begin our check-ins on battleground states in the final three weekends of the race.

Juliet Taruso is national political reporter

for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Julia, let's start by just telling me

what's the state of the race now in Pennsylvania?

How do things feel with a little about two and a half

weeks to go? The state of the race is neck and neck in Pennsylvania. You see that

in pulling with a tied race here anywhere between one and four points separating Trump and Harris.

And then you also just feel it in terms of the amount of time both candidates are spending

in this state. Both of them and their

running mates were here in the past week along with surrogates just kind of

blanketing the Commonwealth.

In those visits, are they focusing on different parts of the state and sort of how does that

fit in with the political geography of Pennsylvania?

Sure, so I think former President Trump's strategy had been to focus really on a lot of those

Russ Belt, white working class parts of the state that really helped carrying him to victory in 2016. Vice President

Harris has had been focusing the suburbs, Philadelphia, but then also traveling to

a lot of the areas where President Biden was able to do a little bit better

than Hillary Clinton in 2020 and win.

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