Pennsylvania: Key to Senate and lab for Trump

But Pennsylvania is where he has it. special attention donald trumpAiming to repeat the 2020 strategy Question and question negative consequenceshe is using this new crusade as a “dress rehearsal” for a possible presidential race in 2024. And the state, nicknamed “the cornerstone,” is once again at the center of an election, and perhaps at the epicenter of another political earthquake.

Senate race

The faults of this earthquake have been moving in recent months. Shortly before John Fetterman, vice-governor, the Democratic nominee for Senate, gave a comfortable lead more than 10 points Doctor Mehmet Oza cardiologist popular media figure before entering politics and achieving success, trump confirmationRepublican nomination.

Standing two feet tall, with tattoos, a goatee, gym shorts and a hoodie, Fetterman is a Democrat with a singular image. With 13 years of experience as mayor of Braddock, a small town near Pittsburgh, he is a progressive but deindustrialization and Fetterman, mostly black and low-income, working class and it was seen as a good option with its concerns. win back rural voters In a state where Biden won by just one point in 2020, with the support of Trump, especially the city centres.

But the suffering Fetterman paralysis in may just before the primaries and drag sequels with listening comprehension and expression problems, He sees how his opponent shortens the distances. The Republican camp questioned the Democrat’s ability to recover physically and cognitively and to be up to the task. But also, Dr. Oz, a voter which, as at the national level, gives wings to the republicans in this final part of the campaignfocused on the message inflation, fighting crime wave migrationIssues in which Oz accuses Fetterman of holding “extremist” and “radical” positions.

Thus, the struggle escalated, and the struggle for the seat in Pennsylvania, from which moderate Republican Senator Pat Toomey had withdrawn, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Arizona and Ohio Like those that would define control of the Upper House.

Under these circumstances, on Tuesday night, The controversy between Fetterman and Oza face-to-face interview that candidates personally reproduce sour attacks has been running in ads and messages for months. It was a duel in which the Democrat resisted and facilitated a fight in front of the cameras. special precautionsLike setting up screens where Fetterman can instantly read transcripts of what the moderators and Oz are saying. And according to some Democrats, it would have been better if he had continued to reject the debate (Republicans have been calling for multiple debates for months and one before early voting in Pennsylvania began on Sept. 19).

Although, as he had done at his tightly controlled and limited public events, the candidate insisted that he was on the path to recovery and was ready to serve at the hour of discussion, as his doctors had confirmed. speech problems, with severe difficulty expressing your speech or finding words. These stalemates have been particularly skeptical to their political positions.break’ He hesitated and gave a disjointed response to a question about past statements that were critical to the Pennsylvania economy and dismissed the hydraulic quarrying he now supports.

this Fetterman’s performanceHe’s been compared to a man who was never a great communicator, but who has also been making his own television show for 13 years and is extremely comfortable in front of the cameras. uncomfortable. It started to be defined as “in Axios.painful”. And in the debate, as it has been so far, it won’t help if the Democrat doesn’t want to commit to making complete medical reports on his condition public.

It is not yet clear how voters will react, but the meeting also served as a reminder. Two very different political proposals. For example, Fetterman supported raising the Pennsylvania minimum wage to $15 from the current $7.25; Oz argued, for his part, that “market forces are already responsible for raising it.” And despite the mobilization for the rejection of the Supreme Court’s decision to cancel the right to constitutional protection abortion No doubt they will try to use the words of Doctor Oz during the debate, which encouraged Democrats in the summer. While she’s softened her radical stances a bit since winning the primaries (she even went so far as to say that any interruption of pregnancy was “still murder”), she announced this Tuesday that the decision had to be made. “women, doctors and local political leaders”.

Trump’s Strategy

Pre-debate polls show Fetterman to be within the polls margin of error, just two points ahead of Oz. And this tight race isn’t just keeping the Democrats nervous. the old president embers holding meetings in-person and telephone conversations with allies, activists and lawyers they have prepared plans to challenge election results If Oz doesn’t sweep Fetterman, or if the count is tight on or after November 8th.

The idea put forward by ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine, repeat the challenge It’s already running in the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania and in Democratic urban principalities like Philadelphia. And a source in the magazine who spoke to Trump about this potential scenario said the former president “sees it a problem” in this challenge to the results of the midterm elections. general trial” from him Possible presidential campaign in 2024.