The Trump campaign focused their efforts brilliantly and won Pennsylvania by less than a single percentage point, picking up the state’s 20 Electoral College votes. Ohio had twice voted for Barack Obama in previous election but in the most recent Presidential Election only seven of the state’s 88 counties remained blue. In Michigan Trump managed to turn a 10-point deficit in 2012 into a narrow victory in 2016. The numbers behind those victories are just as startling. The President also managed to flip Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, which is the second-most valuable swing state after Florida. Trump on the other hand held five large-scale rallies in Wisconsin and duly picked up the state’s 10 Electoral College votes. They were seen as such safe Democrat wins that Clinton barely bothered to campaign there, with Wisconsin not having a single visit from their potential President. Trump led in just three of them.” □ - Mehdi Hasan September 8, 2020 “Consider this fact: From July 2016 until Election Day in the three Rust Belt states that Trump unexpectedly picked off - Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - 94 public polls were released. The more southerly parts of Michigan, northern Illinois, eastern Iowa and south-eastern Wisconsin complete the group of generally Democrat-voting states. Deindustrialisation and the outsourcing of many ‘blue-collar’ jobs overseas has left them in a state of decline and decay, giving the ‘Rust’ Belt its name.Īlthough there is no official definition the Rust Belt is usually said to run from central New York state, running west through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland and Indiana. The Rust Belt states are a group of traditionally industrial northern states who have suffered an economic downturn since the 1980s. Trump managed to tap into growing discontent amongst working class voters to beat Hillary Clinton, but Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he will hope that his close links with the region will be telling. Flipping them back will be vital to Joe Biden’s hopes of becoming the next President of the United States and he has made more trips to Pennsylvania than any other swing state during the course of campaigning. The Trump campaign appear to be concentrating their efforts for the final week on the ‘Rust Belt’ states that he managed to flip in 2016, turning traditionally Democrat-voting areas into Republican wins. China's not a problem." /4M37uvJQUe- The Hill October 26, 2020 President Trump plays blistering video of Joe Biden praising China, slamming fracking, and supporting NAFTA at his rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania.īiden on video: "China is not our enemy.
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