The Election, as Seen from Swing States
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
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Joe Biden leads the Presidential race in Pennsylvania by around ten per cent, according to most polls, but Eliza Griswold says you wouldn’t know it on the ground. Republicans in the state have organized a huge registration drive in recent years, and, while Griswold was driving to Biden’s working-class birthplace of Scranton, she saw Trump signs blanketing the lawns and roads. Peter Slevin, reporting from Wisconsin, tells David Remnick that Democrats there organized early, to avoid the mistake that Hillary Clinton made in 2016 of taking the state for granted. Even so, Biden’s campaign has declined to do risky in-person events, but the Trump campaign, until recently, has proceeded as if coronavirus had never happened.
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| 1:16.7 | If history is any guide at all, the 2020 election will be decided in a few key swing states, maybe even a limited number of swing counties. |
| 1:27.2 | Today we're going to talk with a couple of our reporters |
| 1:29.2 | who are looking at what's happening on the ground. |
| 1:32.4 | I went to Lackawanna County because I wanted to see |
| 1:35.5 | who these new Republicans were in Pennsylvania |
| 1:38.1 | and how they were trying to capture Biden's backyard. |
| 1:41.9 | That's Eliza Griswold. |
| 1:43.5 | She's based in Philadelphia, and lately she's |
| 1:46.0 | been spending a lot of time to the north in Lackawanna County. That's the county seat of the very |
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