Trump Cuts Pennsylvania Town Hall Short After 2 People Collapse

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Trump continues to have his best polling performance in the Keystone State.
66% : At that point, Trump indicated that he would end the Q&A segment of the event, spending the rest of the time playing music, speaking to voters onstage, and greeting the crowd.
66% : Trump said the heat was a motivating factor in his changed approach to the evening.
66% : Black said that the support for Trump in the dominantly blue area is "overwhelming" in comparison to 2020.
60% : Trump came onstage to his normal introduction of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA," joining South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who moderated the event.
55% : The two sudden collapses appeared due to poor air conditioning in the building, and Trump requested that two huge side doors in the hall be opened to increase circulation and cool the room.
47% : "Here's what we're going to do," Trump replied.
43% : "Heather Miller, a 41-year-old former Democrat who was among those who asked Trump a question, said she was surprised by the unexpected turn of the event, saying she'd never been to a Trump event before this one.
41% : Around midway through the event, an attendee in risers to the left of the stage collapsed due to heat in the packed hall, at which point Trump suspended the rally to ensure that the attendee could receive medical attention.
39% : Asked how he would address the mounting difficulties of obtaining a mortgage, Trump presented a two-pronged approach that would focus on expediting zoning laws and red tape around building new homes, and on cutting interest rates to make the interest on mortgages affordable.
26% : Additionally, Trump went back to what he sees as the core issue in inflation: energy policy, which has residual effects on almost every sector of the economy.
24% : As of Oct. 15, Trump leads the RealClearPolitics aggregate in the state by 0.3 percent -- a far cry from the same dates in 2020 and 2016, when President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were leading by 6.4 percent and 8.2 percent respectively.
23% : "We're going to drill, baby, drill," Trump said, repeating one of his most-used campaign lines.Trump also took questions from Gold Star parents whose son was among those killed in the 2011 Chinook helicopter shootdown, which killed 30 service members, including 22 Navy SEALs from Seal Team Six.
18% : The elections in both cases were decided by around a point, with Trump pulling off an upset in 2016 before Biden narrowly reclaimed the state in 2020.
17% : "Trump also addressed questions related to grocery costs, crime and safety, and illegal immigration.

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