How to Win Pennsylvania

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Passing drivers were emboldened to shout at Haitians, "Trump is coming!"
57% : "My mom, she's on Social Security," Mike said, "and these people are getting $4,000 a month, and that's more than she gets.
49% : The most convincing accounts of the 2016 presidential election found that the leading determinant of support for Trump was residence in a declining white community that had recently seen the arrival of nonwhite immigrants, which brought rapid cultural change and created a sense that the country was becoming unrecognizable.
46% : "All they know is Trump was here buying everyone McDonald's.
45% : I know people who were lifelong, dyed-in-the-wool, staunch Democrats who, during that period, went out and changed their registration so that they could vote for Trump.
44% : The owner, an American citizen of Sierra Leonean origin, had put a sign behind the counter that said Trump 2024.
39% : But he's running for reelection on the bet that his pro-labor, anti-corporate positions will prevail over the hostility toward immigrants that Trump and other Republicans are stirring up.
39% : "The Wall Street guys bankrolling Trump and my opponent are the guys who devastated these communities," Deluzio told me as we drove between campaign events.
39% : Deluzio argued that Trump villainizes new immigrants to distract local people -- themselves the descendants of immigrants and legitimately anxious about rapid change in their towns -- from the true causes of their pain: monopolistic corporations and the politicians they fund.
39% : But Trump paid a visit to the area, Annie told me, while President Biden didn't for more than a year -- and that made a stronger impression than Deluzio's effort, thwarted by Republicans, to pass regulatory reform.
37% : Then Trump heard about Charleroi.
37% : "Elmore, a Black Air Force guardsman, was at the rally in Butler where Trump was shot, and rushed to render first aid to Corey Comperatore, the man who was killed; Comperatore's family then invited Elmore to speak at Trump's second Butler rally.
33% : On September 12, at a rally in Arizona, Trump locked onto Charleroi.
31% : "For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia," Senator Chuck Schumer predicted in 2016, shortly before Trump won Pennsylvania, and with it the presidency.
27% : Trump never mentioned the Pyrex factory.
25% : "The most heinous crime recently was an infanticide," Manning told me, "and the parents were both arrested, and they're both as white as us."None of this mattered to Trump.
25% : Then he voted for Trump's bill to overturn Obamacare.
15% : Joe Manning was watching the presidential debate on September 10 when Trump repeated a false story about Haitians eating the cats and dogs of Springfield, Ohio.

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