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The Road to the White House in 2024 Very Well May Run Through Western Pennsylvania's Fracking Country

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Get ready everybody.

The onslaught of political and polling think pieces of how the battleground states that Donald Trump won in 2016 but flipped back to the Democrats and Biden in 2020 are about ready to be unleashed across the fruited plane. While I live in the battleground state of Michigan and this piece is about Western Pennsylvania, I'm not immune from participating in this trend myself.

I talked about the movement of some of the numbers in these battleground states on my radio show on WAAM 1600A.M. & 92.7 F.M in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a couple of weeks ago right HERE; my colleague Nick Arama also had a post about how the Biden clan is reacting to recent polling.

From that post.

I touched on a new Wall Street Journal poll in my story about Jill Biden snapping at a CBS reporter over how badly Biden is doing in the battleground states. 

But the bottom line is she can't spin or argue away the facts, even though she just spread some absolute malarkey about how Biden was "even or better" in the battleground states. Indeed as the new poll shows, former President Donald Trump is leading in six of the seven states.

Donald Trump is leading President Biden in six of the seven most competitive states in the 2024 election, propelled by broad voter dissatisfaction with the national economy and deep doubts about Biden’s capabilities and job performance, a new Wall Street Journal poll finds.
 
The poll of the election’s main battlegrounds shows Trump holding leads of between 2 and 8 percentage points in six states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina—on a test ballot that includes third-party and independent candidates. Trump holds similar leads when voters are asked to choose only between him and Biden.

The one outlier is Wisconsin, where Biden leads by 3 points on the multiple-candidate ballot, and where the two candidates are tied in a head-to-head matchup.

Read More: 

New Poll Has Very Bad News for Biden When It Comes to Battleground States and Approval Compared to Trump


Biden ran in 2020 as a common-sense moderate in a Democratic Party that no longer exists. The party is run by feelings-over-facts zealots, who are much more interested in some sort of wackadoodle theory being taught on leftist college campuses. 

Even the junior Senator from his former home state of Pennsylvania is smart enough to buck the trend Biden has been following. 


Read:

'I Am Not Woke': Fetterman Continues to Surprise, Blasts Squatters and Violent Crime


So, if the most blue-collar guy ever elected to the Senate in the form of John Fetterman is bucking against the lefty woke trend, you can somewhat get an idea of why the blue-collar workforce in Pennsylvania is turning against Scranton Joe, as is discussed right here

In Pennsylvania, the largest 2024 battleground state, President Biden’s victory four years ago depended in large part on big gains among voters such as Thieler, a software company manager and former Republican who is now part of the city’s heavily Democratic professional class. But those gains have been overtaken by opposition from voters like Sabo, who works in the natural-gas industry, a sector that has given a boost to blue-collar workers in rural counties.

These energy-economy voters see Biden as hostile to fracking, which taps natural gas trapped in sedimentary rock deep underground. The sector has drawn billions of dollars in new investment in Pennsylvania, much of it in the state’s southwest corner.

Biden has been particularly hurt by his decision to cancel the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which local companies say cut into demand for their services; and his order this year to pause new permits to export liquefied natural gas, which could deprive drillers of new markets. Many of these voters also believe the president’s push for Americans to adopt electric vehicles will undercut jobs tied to fossil fuels.

The area’s reliance on energy jobs helps explain why Democrats look to be losing more voters than they have gained here despite a Biden agenda that’s pumping billions of dollars into infrastructure and manufacturing.

“Everyone here is aware that it’s better for oil and gas if Republicans get elected,” said Adam Kress, who works with Sabo in Zelienople, 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.

Joe Biden's team in 2020 and particularly, the old man himself, took great pride in flipping Pennsylvania back to the blue column after Trump had snuck one past them in 2016. 

That Trump is, even at this early stage, leading in Pennsylvania is going to scramble what is left of Joe Biden's brain capacity, if the trend continues. He believes that because he grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, he understands the struggles that these people are going through--and all the stories of his dad talking about the dignity of having a job because of what happened in Pennsylvania decades ago. His delusion that this somehow resonates with people who are being negatively affected by his brain-dead policies is showing to not be the case in the early stages here.

Fracking is a large deal in western Pennsylvania and since day one, Joe Biden has screwed the pooch on these hard-working blue-collar regions, and has sacrificed their livelihood and the country’s energy needs supporting these anti-job policies.

I hope he continues down this path.

There is a long way to go before the November 2024 election and all the ballots are counted. However, if these early trends continue and the Trump team can avoid some pitfalls, we can look hopefully to a future where Joe Biden is a former president who can be immediately put directly into the old folks' home--where he can eat all the ice cream he wants until his belly is full and he can no longer affect public policy.

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