PREVIEW: #Pennsylvania: #Keystone: Conversation with colleague Salena Zito, Washington Examiner and Wall Street Journal, re the challenge for the presidential candidates in order to win Pennsylvania after the debate tilted the field again - and the critic
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor speaking with Salina Zito, my colleague in Pennsylvania for the |
| 0:05.8 | Washington Examiner in the Wall Street Journal, about the task ahead for President |
| 0:10.8 | Biden and for former President Trump to win the state of Pennsylvania, the Keystone State. |
| 0:17.0 | The Electoral College requires Pennsylvania if you're going to get to 270, either candidate. |
| 0:23.0 | What is the most important part of Pennsylvania? |
| 0:25.2 | All parts, east and west. |
| 0:27.2 | However, Salina identifies one county |
| 0:29.6 | more than any other that is a county that swung back and forth over these last cycles and must |
| 0:36.9 | be won by the winner of Pennsylvania who will be the winner of the national contest. |
| 0:43.6 | Selina Zito on Erie County. |
| 0:46.5 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:48.5 | So in the east, the most important county |
| 0:50.9 | that Trump or Biden has to win is Northampton. |
| 0:54.6 | However, in the West, the most important county and even more important county |
| 1:00.4 | than Northampton is Erie County. Erie County swung from 16 percentage |
| 1:07.0 | points for Barack Obama in 2012 to supporting Donald Trump. That is a wild swing of votes. |
| 1:15.4 | Since then, it has voted for a Republican for County Executive, |
| 1:21.4 | voted for Biden by 40,000 votes in 2020 and voted for Shapiro and Federman. |
| 1:27.8 | In other words, it's up for grabs. |
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