Joe Biden's energy policies are fuelling Donald Trump's campaign in Pennsylvania

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Blue-collar voters will once again play an important role in November, with opinion polls showing Biden with a very slight lead over Trump in the state.
56% : When Donald Trump held a rally in rural Pennsylvania last week, he hit familiar themes: immigration, his legal woes and rising prices.
55% : In rural Pennsylvania support for Trump runs deep with many homeowners displaying campaign signs in the front gardens and bumper stickers on their cars."Trump was honest, he might have been vocal but he was very honest," said Joe Cyran, a 73-year-old builder who has erected pro-Trump signs outside his business.
51% : "Jim Lee, president of Susquehanna Polling and Research, said focus groups showed that many Biden voters were voting against Trump, rather than for Biden, whereas Trump voters were very enthusiastic about his candidacy.
47% : "If we are not building energy infrastructure and pipelines, I mean, that definitely has to hurt labour, jobs, pipeliners, construction and union jobs," said Shawn Steffee, business agent at the Boilermakers Local 154 trade union in Pittsburgh.
46% : "My members are going to vote with their pocketbook and the economy," said Steffee.Republican politicians in Pennsylvania have seized on the LNG cessation, which resonates with a rural constituency of landowners, gas and coal workers who have overwhelmingly backed Trump in recent presidential elections.
41% : I will vote for Biden and I hope he carries through with plans for student debt relief.
39% : In return, he has supported pro-union industrial policies that helped them reverse decades of membership decline in Pennsylvania last year.Union leaders say Biden has done more for their movement than any previous president but warn his policies targeting the gas industry could cause workers to switch allegiance to Trump.
25% : Biden, who was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, defeated Trump in the state in 2020 by just over 80,000 votes, or about 1 percentage point.
25% : "They don't like Trump . . . 
22% : "If this election turns into a referendum on Trump, as opposed to a referendum on Biden?
22% : "The communist left is persecuting Trump.
22% : "But Pennsylvania's main cities vote mainly Democrat and in Scranton some Biden supporters are mobilising in an effort to keep Trump out.
22% : "Trump put into place three Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe vs Wade.
19% : Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in Pennsylvania in 2016 by fewer than 45,000 votes, when large numbers of working class voters who traditionally voted Democrat backed the Republican candidate.
15% : In Pittsburgh, another Democratic stronghold, some young voters appear disenchanted with Biden and Trump, citing their old age and policy differences.

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