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The Run-Up

All Eyes on Pennsylvania

The Run-Up

The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

There’s no state more likely to tip the election than Pennsylvania. It has the most electoral votes of any swing state, with 19, and its flip from red to blue in 2020 helped secure the win for Joe Biden. For Kamala Harris to prevail there this year, she needs to win over moderates, even Republicans, who are turned off by Donald Trump. And she has to drive up enthusiasm among the Democratic base, including Black voters in urban centers like Philadelphia. On the show today, the Democrats’ final push in Pennsylvania — and a conversation with Al Schmidt, the state’s top election official, on how he’s preparing for close results in this closely watched state. Featured in the episode: Canvassers with the Working Families Party Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania’s secretary of state

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, we're going to role play, we're on role play to new scripts, right? And remember, we start the conversation

0:07.4

emphasizing who they're voting for, but the goal is to work them through their vote plan, right?

0:14.2

Whether it is voting early at a satellite election office,

0:17.5

whether it's returning a mail and ballot,

0:19.8

or whether it is showing up on election day

0:22.3

and helping them navigate what that looks like.

0:24.0

Who's my who's my accesses?

0:28.0

Who's a voter?

0:30.0

Mike. You're going to be a voter?

0:32.0

Okay.

0:33.0

Action.

0:35.0

Last week, my colleague Caitlin and I joined up with another group of canvassers.

0:40.0

This time, Kamala He Hare supporters in West Philadelphia.

0:44.0

They were with the Pennsylvania Working Families Party, a progressive political organization.

0:49.0

And before they headed out to knock doors,

0:52.0

they were gathered in a little side yard,

0:54.8

working through role-playing scenarios

0:56.9

for how to handle different voters they might encounter.

1:00.1

Good afternoon, how you doing?

1:02.0

Hi, we're working family party,

1:05.0

and we want to know if you're going out to vote on November 5th.

1:10.0

I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure not really into neither one of the candidates.

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