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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'If Pennsylvania goes, so will go the country'
Trump and Biden are both betting big on Pennsylvania, spending the final days of their campaigns crisscrossing the state.PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania has emerged as the keystone state of the entire race for the White House.
In the last three days of the presidential election, the campaigns of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have made the swing state their home, with Pennsylvania surfacing as the presidents new top focus, his aides said.
Trump spent Saturday crisscrossing the state from the Delaware Valley to fracking country to north central Pennsylvania to stage four rallies. Hell return for a stop in the northeast on the eve of the election. Biden sees Pennsylvania as so important that he is spending the final day of the 2020 campaign here, barnstorming all four corners of the state with his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, and their spouses, staff said.
We are the Keystone State, said Pennsylvania Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Its clear from an Electoral College perspective, if you look at the map from last cycle, just how pivotal Pennsylvania is. At the end of the day, I think if Pennsylvania goes, so will go the country.
Biden is beating Trump by 4 or 5 percentage points here, according to polling averages a decent but not overwhelming lead that is within some surveys' margin of error. Pennsylvania and its 20 Electoral College votes have more psychological significance to Bidens campaign than any other state. Bidens political persona is rooted in his childhood in Scranton, his campaign was headquartered in Philadelphia until the pandemic began, and he has held more events in Pennsylvania than any other battleground.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/01/pennsylvania-trump-biden-campaign-433798
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'If Pennsylvania goes, so will go the country' (Original Post)
UCmeNdc
Nov 2020
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AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)1. with rethugs shenanigans, it is possible for Biden to lose PA and still win
I actually believe Biden will win AZ because there are no voter suppression or other shenanigans.
RockRaven
(14,959 posts)2. While it is true that if Biden wins PA he almost certainly wins, PA will be counting slowly so
it might be clear Biden has won already before we know PA results. For instance, if Biden wins NC and MI then the other needed bits -- like MN or WI, and NV -- will likely be called before PA (so long as PA is looking close).
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. Biden's eggs need not be in any one particular basket - fortunately
My Pet Orangutan
(9,238 posts)4. If Florida goes, so will go the country
If Texas goes, so will go the country
doc03
(35,325 posts)5. I don't need to see this I have a bad feeling that Trump will win PA nt
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)6. Nope. It is a must win for Trump but not Biden necessarily.