Democrats Sound Alarm Bells About Pennsylvania
“The President is popular in PA. I don’t care what polls say,” Pennsylvania’s Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman tweeted after seeing photos of President Trump’s Butler, PA rally Saturday.
With just a few days left before election day, President Trump, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, and their surrogates are visiting various battleground states like Michigan and Florida to make their final pitches to voters in hopes of winning their support.
One key state that political experts say will be a “must-win” is Pennsylvania. This is something the Trump campaign appears to be keenly aware of, as Trump has made numerous visits to the state over the last couple of months, including four campaign stops Saturday. He reportedly will visit again today and Monday.
During his appearances yesterday, Trump emphasized Biden’s flip flops on fracking. He also announced to the crowds that he had just signed an executive order to “strongly protect your state’s fracking and energy industry”:
Trump reminded the crowd in Montoursville of his announcement at an earlier Pennsylvania rally that he signed an order to “strongly protect your states fracking and energy industry.”
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“Moments ago I signed an executive order to protect Pennsylvania fracking and block any effort to undermine energy production in your state,” Trump told a crowd in Butler, Pa., earlier Saturday.
“So if one of these maniacs come along say end fracking, I signed it on the beautiful Marine One,” the president said.
Photos and videos from Trump’s Butler, PA rally showed a massive crowd of supporters. One unconfirmed report had the number at 57,000:
Massive crowd here in Butler, Pa. with 72 hours to go until Election Day. pic.twitter.com/QOyLpw7hak
— Gabby Orr (@GabbyOrr_) October 31, 2020
Trump Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania: pic.twitter.com/LArRTiqwrD
— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) October 31, 2020
Trump’s Butler crowd is unreal pic.twitter.com/bldM8WfrN7
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 1, 2020
The photos shared on social media of the Butler, PA crowd had the state’s Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman urging voters to make their voices heard to counter Trump’s momentum. “The President is popular in PA. I don’t care what polls say,” Fetterman tweeted Saturday:
The President is popular in PA.
I don’t care what polls say.
With 700K ballots still out there, you need to BANK YOUR BALLOT.
Use a Dropbox.
Get them in. https://t.co/YANdwqbdYG
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) October 31, 2020
Fetterman’s concerns about Trump’s popularity in Pennsylvania is shared by other Democrats, who are also sounding alarm bells about the possibility of a repeat of what happened in the state in 2016:
The causes of Democrats’ anxiety are varied. They worry about potential trouble with mail-in ballots during a pandemic. They are concerned about the prospect of a voter surge in White, rural areas favorable to Trump and signs of lower-than-anticipated turnout among the Democratic base.
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They are nervous about GOP efforts to place limits on voting. They cringe at the recent looting and violence in Philadelphia, which Trump has seized on to portray Biden as weak on crime and hostile to police. And they harbor lingering concerns about Biden’s muddled rhetoric on oil and gas, which has prompted inaccurate attacks that he advocates ending fracking.
“I am worried about Pennsylvania,” said Neil Oxman, a veteran Democratic strategist based in the state. Oxman cited several concerns, including the possibility that Trump’s base “will come out just a little bit stronger than our base.”
In another development that should up the panic a notch among Democrats in the state is the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s endorsement of Trump. It’s the first time the’ve endorsed a Republican for president since 1972:
This newspaper has not supported a Republican for president since 1972. But we believe President Trump, for all his faults, is the better choice this year.
Via @pgopinions https://t.co/dZYEQp3pGY
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (@PittsburghPG) November 1, 2020
Despite what they describe as Trump’s ‘unpresidential manners and character”, here’s what the paper had to say about his record:
Under Donald Trump the economy, pre-COVID, boomed, like no time since the 1950s. Look at your 401(k) over the past three years.
Unemployment for Black Americans is lower than it has ever been, under any president of either party.
Under Mr. Trump, our trade relationships have vastly improved and our trade deals have been rewritten. Thanks to him, middle America is on the map again and the Appalachian and hourly worker has some hope.
Has Mr. Trump done enough for these struggling fellow citizens? No. But he recognized them. Maybe he was not articulate, but he recognized their pain.
No one ever asked the American people, or the people in “flyover,” country, if they wanted to send their jobs abroad — until Mr. Trump. He has moved the debate, in both parties, from free trade, totally unfettered, to managed, or fair, trade. He has put America first, just as he said he would.
He also kept his promise to appoint originalists to the Supreme Court of the United States. His third appointment, Amy Coney Barrett, is the best of all — a jurist whose mind and character and scholarship ARE first class. We hope she stands against both judicial and executive excess.
Finally, let’s talk about one of the most important concerns in this region — energy. Under Mr. Trump the United States achieved energy independence for the first time in the lifetimes of most of us. Where would Western Pennsylvania be without the Shell Petrochemical Complex (the “cracker plant”)?
Donald Trump is not Churchill, to be sure, but he gets things done.
And one final note that should have Democrats climbing the walls in PA and beyond is that Trump is “clawing away” at undecided voters here in the final days of the campaign, according to polling guru Nate Silver, while Biden is “essentially unchanged from his peak”:
To the extent there's been tightening in national polls, it's been from Trump clawing away at undecideds. Biden is essentially unchanged from his peak at ~52, but Trump has improved from a nadir of 41.7 to 43.5 now. pic.twitter.com/3bJ4MsGDJ4
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 1, 2020
We’ll find out soon if those late-deciding voters put Trump over the top in the states he needs to win. Stay tuned.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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So when Trump wins and PA is just another number what’s the sore losers going to say then?
They could say this.
“Trump Holds Massive 57,000 Person Event In Pennsylvania, Governor Whines And Whines…”
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Or this.
“Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Endorses Trump, First Time The Paper Has Endorsed A Republican Since 1972…”
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Michigan JUST FLIPPED RED.
Michigan Will Now Require Bars And Restaurants To Collect Customers Names And Phone Numbers…
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BREAKING: Trump Supporters In New Jersey Shut Down The Garden State Parkway…
Ibid.
Gee, I thought those rally photos were from one of the three (total) rallies Quid Pro Joe was holding this weekend. I know he’s brought tens of people to his rallies. Good thing Joe is in great shape (dreamed verbally about beating up on Trump back in High School). If he weren’t in great shape he wouldn’t be able to keep up with the President’s schedule of rallies (three or four in PA alone yesterday), IIRC something like 13 from Saturday through Monday.
And Comma La had to hide her appearance locations in Texas as she was chased around by Trump supporters. There’s photos of her bus running clearly red lights in efforts to shake the trailing Trump supporters.
I was at the Reading rally, guessing at least 10,000 there, Awesome energy in the crowd.
Polls are claiming Biden has a 7-10 point lead nationally.
Polls are ALSO saying approx 65% of people think Trump is going to win.
In other words, even the liberals think the polls are bullshit.
The outcome in 2018 was influenced by the phony collusion narrative. The outcome in 2020 will be influenced by Biden’s corruption, his senility, and the explicitly anti-Trump tone of the riots. Meanwhile Trump projects cheer and optimism.
All the Dems have left to motivate voters in Death Plague 2020 — and there’s no way to make fearmongering sound optimistic. Nor does Kamala’s brittle laughter sound cheerful.
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Despite what they describe as Trump’s ‘unpresidential manners and character”
These perpetual qualifications are very peculiar.
My benchmark for “presidential manners and character” remains that quintessential Democrat, LBJ. His hobby of whipping it out and urinating in the Rose Garden at whim will—I fervently hope—never be equaled. Anybody with better manners than that can’t qualify as a world-class embarrassment.
PDJT is actually very unusual. I don’t recall any President who was so thoroughly investigated. Mueller spend a bloody long time wading through every sewer and sniffing under every toilet seat he could find in his search for something to pin on Trump, and he came up with nothing but utter trivia. Even Weissmann, Mueller’s own personal Beria-in-a-can, rolled nothing but snake eyes. Ergo, hostile investigation has shown DJT to be the cleanest President we’ve had in a dog’s age. So let’s stop pretending otherwise. No, he doesn’t give us rotund, meticulously focus-group-tested speeches, but in this automated era we can get those direct from the teleprompter; we don’t need a President to whip up such fluff for us. Stand up and say something meaningful, Mr President, and don’t make it longer than it has to be. And that’s what PDJT delivers. For my money, that’s a welcome—and long overdue—improvement.
(Though I do miss Warren Harding’s speeches. “I would like government to do all it can to mitigate” remains a classic.)
Polls are also something a lot of people shove up their back sides in place of a spine.
What about the bovine vote? I’ve asked this in other fora: there are bovines called Polled Herefords. If they are indeed polled, what are the results from that demographic?
What about the polled pork!?
“Polled” means “hornless,: i.e., unlikely to show up to heckle a Biden rally.
Hillary!
Pennsylvanians are rational and practical about their hydrocarbons, they enjoy an environment free from a Green blight, and, perhaps, they like their carbon-based male and female humanoid lifeforms, too.
The shy or silent voter is real. Gallup called me three times in the last two months and I hung up on them every time.I live in a small rural town and somebody has been burning Trump signs and American flags in the owners’ driveways. Can’t trust the polls anymore.Trump breaks the mold and changes the game.
In 1972, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette endorsed the re-election of a Republican president whose men had spied illegally on his challenger.
Today the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette endorsed its first Republican for president since 1972. This time, it’s Trump, a Republican president whose campaign was spied on illegally by a Democratic president’s men and women.
Suddenly here in Iowa, the Des Moines Register’s pollster has come out with Trump up by six, and the Senate race leaning to Joni Ernst by four. Seems to me that their demoralizing ops have gone as far as they can go, so now they suddenly have to shift the numbers so that they can still have jobs after Tuesday’s returns come in.
Well, operation demoralize seems a bust. Operation suppression isn’t working all that well. And I’ll bet that operation fraudcount won’t quite play out the way the apparatchiks think, either.
If early voting were giving them the leads they’ve been predicting, they’d be shouting on every channel 24×7. When the early vote count is neck in neck, it’s hard to tout polls that say you’re up plus-eleventy.
Besides, they’re the insurgents. Whether The Screaming D’s admit it or not, Trump won last time around. He’s only got to hold the states he took last time and hee’s in again. Every state he won that goes their way by less than eleventy-billion is a contested count.
Having made “fraud” and “suppression” issues in the zeitgeist, The Screaming D’s are gonna have to live with thoseclaims for flips they squeak out. (BTW, who keeps getting busted with fake registrations, dumping fake ballots, n trying to change the rules.)
The accidental coalition of Deplorables, Clingers, Uglies, and affiliated scum know they can win, and have a dozen arguments. Even The Feckless R’s are helping (a little, and badly, but still.)
Win or loose this election, The Screaming D’s are certainly making the case for limited govt, and the more centeralized the more limited.
After Trump wins handily, I’ll be more than eager to revisit those conversations about re-education camps, and leveling the cities of the losers. So shine those Nikes, commies.
Given the mail-in fraud, I will be very surprised if Trump wins Pennsylvania.