This is John Batcher, an excerpt from a conversation with Salina Zito, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette,

the Washington Examiner, the New York Post about Pennsylvania in the 2024 election cycle.

Will Pennsylvania vote for a third-party candidate, even if that third-party

candidate cannot win the country? Can he or she influence the vote in Pennsylvania one way or another between the major candidates

who this year show in Pennsylvania to be exceedingly unusually unpopular.

A third-party candidate can such a candidate influence the eventual electoral votes of Pennsylvania. Understanding the Keystone

State is vital to any winning electoral college assembly by the winning

candidate. You must win the Keystone State very difficult to get

to 270 without it almost impossible given the battlegrounds today.

Salina and I look at other races that might influence the vote in Pennsylvania.

And that comes to the Senate race.

Bob Casey, a veteran politician in Pennsylvania, extremely well-known, well-liked, a moderate Democrat,

and David McCormick challenging him, a man who has high approval rating after his race for the nomination just before in the previous

election, both are very careful and gentlemen and Selina comments on are they likely to influence the boat

in some fashion or introduce the possibility that the two unpopular names at the top of the ticket will not enjoy easy

campaigning in the Keystone State. Here's Selina to understand what's ahead in Pennsylvania.

Yeah, these are gentlemen. I think I don't see either of them

attacking each other personally.

The last time Bob Casey did that in a race,

it was a primary race between him and Ed Rendell,

it turned out rather terribly for him,

for governor and he lost. and he's never adopted that style again and

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