This is John Batchelor, conversation with my colleague Salina Zito, the Washington Examiner,

and the Wall Street Journal, about the state of Pennsylvania and the vote in 2024.

Salina identifies 300,000 votes from 2012.

New Deal Democrats that stayed home.

Those 300,000 votes went in different directions,

but in 2016, they decided for Trump. In 2020 they decided for

Mr Biden where are they in 2024? Three hundred thousand votes former Democrats

Selina identifies where they are now. 300,000 votes, former Democrats.

Selina identifies where they are now,

but it's a moving story.

And this is the election.

300,000.

More of this tonight. That was Trump's unique ability to, as you were speaking about,

those New Deal Democrats, they were lobbed off by Obama in 2012. People

tend to forget that in 2012 in Pennsylvania alone, 300,000 people that had voted for Obama just didn't vote.

So and those were mostly New Deal Democrats.

They have now moved over to the Republican Party. So those are the

voters that honestly I think this election comes down to I wrote a piece about this, cosmetologist, welders, mechanics, you know, people that work on your house.

It's going to be about the people of work and you need people.