The Fight Over Truth in a Blue-Collar Pennsylvania County

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "I can see why a lot of people voted for Trump the first time," he said.
57% : Here was a headshot of Kamala Harris, touting her support for strengthening Medicare; there was a Donald Trump billboard touting the fact that Dana White, the C.E.O. of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, had backed the ex-President.
55% : When Trump first came along, Green sensed that it was he, not any Democrat, who would best represent the interests of her community.
53% : Mayer showed me a graph from the prediction market Polymarket which gave Trump a fifty-seven-per-cent chance of winning the election.
49% : The Trump era has even affected some of the dynamics at the high school where Joe teaches; particularly when Trump first ran, students brought Trump banners to school, causing a stir.
45% : But voting a second time for Trump?
42% : The frenzy has abated but, "definitely younger males -- they're for Trump," Joe said.
40% : Since Trump first ran for office, in 2016, the Democratic Party has been bleeding support from white, non-college-educated voters, a group that's been transformed into the base of the MAGA movement.
39% : "I think that Trump is for women's reproductive rights," she told me.
29% : The pair didn't believe that the race between Harris and Trump was as close as polls indicate.
27% : How, I asked, did she square that view with the fact that Trump had appointed the judges who overturned the right to abortion?
8% : Up and down the couple's street were a smattering of yard signs, evenly split between Harris and Trump and interspersed with Halloween decorations.
7% : He remains torn between Harris and Trump.

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