Kamala Harris used a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday to concisely lay out the reason voters must cast their ballot for her, and not her opponent, come November 5: Donald Trump is a dangerous lunatic who should not be allowed within 1,000 feet of the White House ever again.
After playing a clip of Trump saying the military should be used against people who don’t support him on Election Day, Harris told the crowd in Erie County, Pennsylvania: “A second Trump term would be a huge risk for America. And dangerous. Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged. And he is out for unchecked power.”
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While a recent New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College poll put the vice president ahead of the ex-president by three points in Pennsylvania, a win in the battleground state is far from assured. Speaking at the rally last night, Harris told the crowd: “Erie County, you are a pivot county! How you all vote in presidential elections often ends up predicting the national result.” (Erie County has voted for the winner in each of the last four presidential elections.) Senator John Fetterman, who won the county by nine points in 2022, told the group assembled, “You pick the president!” And while he reminded everyone that in the 2020 contest, “Joe Biden showed up,” “smoked that clown,” and “sent him home,” Fetterman also warned that it would not be easy to beat Trump there again.
Speaking to reporters before the rally, the Democratic senator said that “Trump has a very unique and special connection there [in rural Pennsylvania], and that’s why he’s going to be incredibly difficult.” Noting the many rural counties packed with pro-Trump signs, Fetterman explained: “It’s kind of like a Taylor Swift concert where you have so much swag it goes beyond a typical kind of politics.”
Yet Fetterman also argued that it’s not make-or-break for Harris in the rural parts of the state. “Sometimes it’s not about turning these counties blue,” he said. “You’re not going to change the culture of rural-county Pennsylvania. It’s about reaching out to reachable people. I would be surprised if she wins by three points. She will win Pennsylvania, but I would expect it might be closer than that.”
