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##KeystoneReport: The closing messages. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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##KeystoneReport: The closing messages.  Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com
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0:00.0

This is CBS I on the world. I'm John Batchelor.

0:03.0

Selina Zitov, the Washington Examiner and the Wall Street Journal, profiling Pennsylvania,

0:09.0

which is no longer a secret place to watch the election of 2024.

0:14.0

When I first started talking to Selena many years ago, we had Pennsylvania to ourselves.

0:19.0

No more Europeans have arrived. Selena, nothing is more Pennsylvania to ourselves. No more. Europeans have arrived. Selina, nothing is more

0:23.5

amazing to me that not only have the Europeans discovered Pennsylvania, they've discovered

0:28.2

Erie County that they're tearing your columns and pinning them on the walls in the editorial board.

0:38.9

Well, you know, I mean, I've lived here all my life.

0:42.6

I have 65 years plus experience of being a Pennsylvania and observing Pennsylvania.

0:49.8

So it's, and it's a compliment that people look at your work and think, well, this is important to at least pay attention to.

0:59.7

Yes, pay attention to.

1:01.3

We go to what Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Pennsylvania, Selena and I divide them up because I was born in Montgomery County, East of Color County.

1:09.4

And Selena knows Allegheny County, that's Pittsburgh, and Beaver and Butler and Heary.

1:16.6

And Selena, my measure of the eastern part of the state, anecdotally, because I have brothers and family, you understand,

1:24.0

is that this is a very different profile than 2016 and 2020 right now,

1:29.7

that the electorate is asking more sophisticated questions

1:34.2

than is conducting itself in an unpredictable fashion.

1:37.6

This is for the Collar counties, Delaware, Chester, Bucks, Montgomery.

1:41.6

Do you measure the same thing in the western part of the state? Unusual activity.

1:47.5

You know, I think what we are seeing is that low propensity voters, what do I mean by that?

1:55.8

These are voters that are like Haley's Comet. They come out every 100 years and they're motivated to come out.

2:02.5

They are more, they are more favorable to Donald Trump at this point than they are to

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