Swamp Notes: How do you win Pennsylvania?
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden made campaign stops last week in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes could decide the outcome of the 2024 election. But in a state with such a range of demographic groups, how can each find a message that will stick? The FT’s deputy Washington bureau chief, Lauren Fedor, and US political editor Derek Brower join to discuss. Credit: The Independent, The Times and the Sunday Times
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | At equinore. UK. Pennsylvania is one of five states that flip from Donald Trump in 2016 to Joe Biden in |
| 0:18.3 | 2020 and if Biden wants to stay in the White House he'll have to hold on to it in 2024. |
| 0:27.4 | This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the F.T. News briefing, where we talk about |
| 0:31.8 | all of the things happening in the |
| 0:33.4 | 2024 US presidential election. I'm Sonia Hudson and this week we're asking |
| 0:39.1 | how do you win Pennsylvania? Here with me to discuss is Derek Brower. He's the |
| 0:45.0 | F.T. U.S. political news editor. Hi Derek. Hi Sonia. And we've also got |
| 0:49.9 | Lauren feeder, the F.T.'s Deputy Washington Bureau Chief. |
| 0:53.1 | Hey Lauren. |
| 0:53.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:55.2 | Okay, so President Joe Biden was on the campaign trail this week. |
| 0:58.7 | He made stops in Scranton, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, |
| 1:02.4 | which are all cities in Pennsylvania. |
| 1:05.2 | So what's got Biden so focused on the state? |
| 1:08.4 | Well, on one hand, I think there's a point of personal pride and affection. |
| 1:12.5 | Joe Biden was born in Scranton and he loves talking about it, |
| 1:16.8 | despite him, obviously spending most of his adult life |
| 1:19.5 | in Delaware. |
| 1:20.1 | So there's probably a bit of sentimentality, |
| 1:22.1 | but there's also some pretty hard-nosed politics going on here. |
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