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Date: 2024-08-27 18:56:50+00:00
For the second week in a row, both candidates on the Republican Party’s presidential ticket will campaign in Pennsylvania.
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) will be in Erie to deliver a speech on the economy and energy, while former President Donald Trump will head to Johnstown on Friday for a rally.
“President Trump knows that Pennsylvania cannot take another four years of a dangerously incompetent and dangerously liberal Kamala Harris,” Trump’s campaign wrote in a press release announcing the rally. “A Trump-Vance Administration will Make America Great Again by unleashing American drilling to halve energy costs, halting the migrant invasion on our southern border, and restoring America’s rightful standing and respect on the world stage.”
Trump’s rally in Johnstown will be his ninth appearance in Pennsylvania this year, while Vance’s visit to Erie will be his fourth since joining the GOP ticket as the candidate for vice president. Both were last in the Keystone State on Aug. 19 in separate appearances in York and Philadelphia to discuss their economic agenda.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign responded to the upcoming visits by saying Trump’s presidency was bad for Pennsylvania workers and a second Trump term would be even worse.
“Pennsylvania workers know how bad a first Trump presidency was, from undermining labor unions to killing 275,000 jobs in Pennsylvania while handing massive tax breaks to big corporations who shipped many of those jobs overseas.” said Onotse Omoyeni, Pennsylvania Rapid Response director for Harris for President, adding that a second Trump term would raise costs on middle-class families.
Harris, who formally accepted her party’s nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention last week in Chicago, has visited Pennsylvania eight times in 2024. Her most recent appearance in the state was Aug. 18, alongside her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Walz, for a bus tour in western Pennsylvania.
Trump’s rally in Johnstown is in reliably red Cambria County, while Vance’s speech will be in purple Erie County.
Trump won Cambria County by 37 points in both 2020 and 2016 over Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.
In 2016, Trump flipped Erie County from blue to red, defeating Clinton by 1.5 percentage points just four years after President Barack Obama won the county by 16 percentage points. In 2020, Biden flipped the county back to blue, winning it over Trump by a percentage point.
Vance’s visit to Erie will be the first appearance for either ticket in the pivotal swing county in 2024.
Harris and Trump remain neck and neck for Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes, with the Cook Political Report rating the presidential race in the Keystone State as a “toss-up.”
An Emerson College poll released on Aug. 16 showed Harris and Trump tied at 47% each, although 3% supported independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has since ended his candidacy and endorsed Trump.
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