☀️ Have a nice Monday. The last full week of the campaign. The deadline to request an absentee ballot is Tuesday at 5 p.m.
Weather in Pennsylvania
🌤️Pittsburgh | Mostly clear, 67
🌤️Harrisburg | Mostly clear, 64
☀️Philadelphia | Sunny, 63
Sports PA
🏈 Pennsylvania State (7-0) | Wisconsin 28-13 | Saturday vs. Ohio State
🏈 Pitt (7-0) | Saturday vs. SMU
🏈 Temple (2-6) | East Carolina 34-56 | November 9 vs. Tulane
🏈 Eagles (5-2) | Cincinnati 37-17 | Sun vs. Jacksonville
🏈 Steelers (5-2) | Mon vs. NY Giants
🏀 Sixes (1-2) | Toronto 107-115 | Indiana 118-114 | Wednesday vs. Detroit
🏒 Penguins (3-6-1) | Edmonton 0-4 | Vancouver 3-4 | Tue vs. Minnesota
🏒 Flyers (2-6-1) | Minnesota 7-5 | Montreal 3-4 | Tue vs. Boston
👂 What we hear. “President Trump is helping me because he’s helping get the vote done, and I largely support his political agenda. But I have to run my own campaign. – Dave McCormick
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The most important story
1. How Latino voters in Allentown and Reading will choose PA
“As the 2024 presidential election approaches, Latino voters will play a huge role in electing the next person to the White House. This party has become the largest minority and fastest growing group of voters in the country.
This is abundantly clear in Berks, Lehigh and Northampton counties, which have seen exponential growth in their Latino populations over the past few decades.
And with the Keystone State playing a key role in the election, those few thousand votes could decide the future of the United States.” (Allentown Morning Talk/Eagle Reading)
Elsewhere
The Philadelphia Inquirer endorses Harris for president. “The Commonwealth’s largest circulation newspaper has elected Vice President Kamala Harris as president.” (PoliticsPA)
On Monday, Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen will go to a rally in Philadelphia. “Vice President Kamala Harris will not be attending the rally and concert being held at the Liacouras Center at Temple University in North Philadelphia.” (Questioner from Philadelphia)
Trump’s event at Madison Square Garden turns into a rally filled with violent and racist insults. “Just over a week before Election Day, speakers called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris a “devil” and said the woman running to become the first woman and Black woman president began her career as a prostitute.” (Pittsburgh Postal Newspaper)
- Donald Trump rally thousands of voters in State College and advocate for fracking. (WPSU)
Country
2. McCormick looks beyond Trump’s base as AP race tightens
“For the next week, the eyes of the world will be on Pennsylvania. Her voters have a lot of power this year.
Most likely, they will decide who will become president. And if that wasn’t enough, the outcome of the Senate race could very well be the difference between a low score or a big night for Senate Republicans.
no pressure, Dave McCormick!” (Punchbowl News)
Elsewhere
Fracking in Pennsylvania – The truth behind the policy. “Why is fracking key? The vast majority of oil and gas wells are fracked, and gas drilling in Pennsylvania is no exception. If wells are not fracked, they do not produce enough gas to be commercially viable. If fracking were banned, gas wells would not be drilled in Pa.” (Forbes)
Pennsylvania Democrats are pushing to close the gap in Trump’s rural Keystone State. “Support in deep red counties will likely make or break Kamala Harris’ chances of winning the state’s 19 electoral votes.” (Pittsburgh Postal Newspaper)
PA-06: Houlahan, Youth Debate Economy, Abortion, Foreign Policy. “U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Chester/Berks) and Republican challenger Neil Young debated on Wednesday. Reading NAACP President Stacy Taylor moderated the discussion on Berks Community TV. The two candidates discussed war, inflation, immigration, the border and tax policy. (DV Journal)
Operation Ralph Reed is quietly aiming to fill turnout gaps in Pennsylvania. “Republicans are wringing their hands over Donald Trump’s ground floor operation. Often left out of these discussions? Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition, which is busy running a $62 million field gaming operation. (Traffic lights)
Around the Republic of Poland
3. In Pennsylvania’s ‘craziest’ county, Democrats are counting on Trump fervor
“Here in lower Bucks County, voters in this working-class town are largely guided by their feelings Donald Trump.
“In several hours of door-knocking in this narrowly divided Bucks County district, no political issue was raised other than whether the former president deserved another term in the Oval Office.” (Washington Post Office)
Elsewhere
The Lancaster Board of Elections says registration forms suspected of voter fraud were dropped off at offices. “At a press conference Friday, Lancaster County Commissioners Josh Parsons, Ray D’Agostino and Alice Yoder announced that a group of nearly 2,500 fraudulent voter registration forms were found among a group that were returned to the county elections office in the final days of registration. period.” (PoliticsPA)
- Lancaster County Prosecutor’s Office, Commissioners Link Fake Voter Registration to Paid Canvassing. (LNP | Lancaster on the Internet)
- York County is investigating thousands of voter registration forms being rejected as the election approaches. (Shipment from York)
Confusion over absentee ballots at the Bucks County elections office is leading to long lines and frustrated voters. “A new brawl in the ongoing Bucks County voting dispute broke out Saturday after election officials cut off a line of people at the county’s main elections office who were still waiting to cast their absentee ballots in person.” (Penn Capital Star)
Pennsylvania voters are complicated. We traveled all over the state to talk to them. “The Pennsylvanians we met reflect a divided electorate. Some are voting for Harris because they are inspired by her vision, which they believe will provide them with stability, and because they want to see a woman president. Others vote for Trump because they believe in his economic policies and promises. And a few weren’t so sure about either candidate. (WQLN)
‘It’s almost like a sign war’: In a heated presidential race, political lawn signs become a flashpoint in Philadelphia’s collar counties. “Democratic and Republican organizers report increase in campaign sign theft and vandalism as Harris-Walz sign dump appears in Montgomery County.” (Questioner from Philadelphia)
Editorial
4. What do you mean
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5. Father Swing-State teaches historic techniques for surviving today’s political turmoil
” Reverend David Peck knows firsthand how divided communities torn apart by violence can be devastated by repeated devastation.
In his previous work as the Church of England’s international development representative, Peck saw during his trips to Africa how religious groups can be part of the problem, but also part of the solution.
Today, Peck is a pastor in the heart of Pennsylvania, a state at the epicenter of a hotly contested presidential campaign that has sparked deep anxiety, strife among families and friends, and even fear of election-related violence.” (AP)
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