Swing-State Showcase: Everything You Need To Know About The Race In Pennsylvania

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In 2016, Trump won the state by more than 44,000 votes.
53% : Erie frequently flip-flops between red and blue, and Lackawanna is notable because President Joe Biden is from Scranton, and because it has a lot of blue-collar voters, a bloc that has increasingly turned towards Trump.
50% : What The Candidates Are SayingTrump has made a strong play for Pennsylvania's blue-collar voters, emphasizing energy independence, specifically his support for fracking and coal mining, two major industries in the state.
40% : PollingThe polls show Trump with a tiny 0.4% sliver of a lead in Pennsylvania, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.
38% : Just before President Joe Biden suspended his campaign in July, Trump had a four point lead in Pennsylvania, a sizable lead for this state.
36% : Last week, election officials in Bucks County, also near Philadelphia, said a viral video appearing to show mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed did not show "authentic" ballot materials.
35% : Before Trump flipped Pennsylvania red in 2016, no Republican had won the state since George H.W. Bush in 1988.
14% : As soon as Biden dropped out and Harris was informally installed as the Democratic nominee, she spiked in the polls, but she never led Trump by more than one point.

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