Harris campaign sees its path to victory in Pennsylvania running through the suburbs
Source: NBC News
Oct. 14, 2024, 6:57 PM EDT
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign laid out what it sees as her path to victory in Pennsylvania in a memo shared exclusively with NBC News ahead of Monday night’s rally in bellwether Erie County.
The Harris team pointed to polls showing Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, having made gains in the battleground state’s suburbs — which it dubbed “our own mini ‘blue wall’” in Pennsylvania — compared with President Joe Biden’s 2020 performance there.
The campaign also emphasized that a win involves boosting its popularity among educated suburbanites, including those who have voted for Republicans in recent elections. Nearly 160,000 voters in the state cast ballots for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the GOP presidential primary this year — with her numbers proving stronger among suburban voters — even after she had already dropped out of the race against former President Donald Trump.
“The Harris campaign’s path to win Pennsylvania capitalizes on Trump’s unprecedented weakness in the suburbs,” reads the memo, which also highlighted the campaign’s focus on Haley voters. “We have flipped the suburbs from red to blue since Trump won them in 2020, and we have also grown our support with women and tripled our support among white college educated voters in the state.”
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-sees-path-victory-pennsylvania-running-suburbs-rcna175307
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But remember, like the sig graphic I have, they don't have the NUMBERS "outside the cities and burbs".
For some reason, the media has helped magnify how many there are. There are actually counties in PA, that literally have the same population as a single neighborhood in Philadelphia. There are probably more dairy cows or elk than people in those counties.
The problem has been to get the population centers out to vote. It should be something that is easy to do and that will happen EVERY YEAR, not every 4 years or every 2 years. For many many years, where goes Philly, so goes the state of PA, as we could provide the margin that blanked out the minuscule rural vote. 45 managed to wake up some of the rural voters while the GOP attempted to suppress the urban one, so it's a matter of us getting the population centers back into the game.
The sad thing is this - when you have to go through what we are going through now to convince people to vote, it is so exhausting and mind-numbing that once they do vote, they don't bother the following year(s). 
