DAVID MARCUS: In the battleground state of PA, Allentown voters see this candidate on the rise
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“The next political ad I see, I swear I'm going to throw my phone at the TV,” said Gary, while reading the menu at a restaurant in Allentown, Pa., and anyone who lives here knows exactly what he is. talk about it.
Living in a roundabout is a privilege, but privilege comes with responsibility, as they say, and this time again a tsunami of TV and radio ads, signs and billboards everywhere, roads blocked by cars, yes, even annoying newspaper writers from all over the country. stores that fill you with your pen and your thoughts.
It's tiring. In fact, the owner of the restaurant, an entertainment venue called Blended, was somewhere between laughing and crying as he received notice that former President Donald Trump would appear on Tuesday, October 29, at the PPL Center down the street.
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“Oh, it just shuts everything down,” Eric said. But he resigned himself to the reality of running a business at the top of presidential politics, and just went about his night.
Allentown, PA, voters are tired of the political campaign, but they know what they want in a candidate. HERITAGE: Allentown, as seen from the Tilghman Street Bridge. (Charles Creitz)
In a way, he is a symbol of the city made famous by Billy Joel's 1980s ballad about its economic decline.
For the past eight years, Eric has been living on the streets, high on crystal meth, just miles away, yet figuratively miles from the small businessman who has become a successful businessman.
Then again, Allentown is no longer a bad, ugly town where they took all the coal from the ground. In its place is a clean, shiny city where old stone buildings, monuments to industrial power, stand proud and beautiful.
This prosperity has been common in my travels around Pennsylvania, and in this crisis it is not the economic concerns, but the big issues that drive most of the voters I talk to.
“I hope whoever wins will put country before themselves,” Eric said, as Henry, Matt, and Zeke, all 20 years old, nodded. They all plan to vote, but no one seems eager to discuss race, in part because no one wants to talk about Hitler and who is or isn't a modern manifestation of him.
Journalist Mark Halperin also recently found this trend at a Keystone State focus group, with one guy on his panel saying he's leaning toward Trump because “Democrats and the left just go for Hitler all the time and everything,” adding “It's so exhausting … it's so hyperbolic that it's impossible.” having good conversations and I think it destroys the discourse.”
He should have come to Blended, he would have entered there.
The fatigue we both feel Halperin down in Pennsylvania presents a unique late-game challenge for both Harris and Trump's campaigns, and overcoming it requires excitement about the candidate, something Trump says Harris lacks.
Harris speaks with CNN's Anderson Cooper at a town hall event in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Instead of excitement, Vice President Kamala Harris is pushing anger and fear, sounding the same tired and well-worn bell about Trump's accusations that fascism is currently producing more than a headache for voters.
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If you had told the campaign of President Joe Biden six months ago that the race in Pennsylvania would not be about high prices and economic problems, but rather about who will be the best manager of the country, especially at a time of global danger, they would have been turned back as Biden ran around them in circles.
But against Harris, Trump is winning the battle of who is the stronger, better and truer leader.
Kenny moved to Allentown from Brooklyn, New York, about six years ago. When I asked why, he said, “You know, life brought me here.”
This prosperity has been common in my travels around Pennsylvania, and in this crisis it is not the economic concerns, but the big issues that drive most of the voters I talk to.
We remembered a little about Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst, how we remember Gotham. He's a Democrat and wants Harris to win, but when I asked him if he thought he would win, he twisted his face a little, took a deep breath and said, “I don't know, man, it doesn't look good.”
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Here on the ground in Pennsylvania I agree. It doesn't look good for him, and if Harris can't come up with a message that doesn't involve swastikas and concentration camps, it won't be good for him anytime soon.
And soon, that's all the time he has.
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