{"id":2229768,"date":"2024-04-25T06:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pining-for-pennsylvania-trumps-philadelphia-suburban-problem-lingers\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:14:10","slug":"pining-for-pennsylvania-trumps-philadelphia-suburban-problem-lingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pining-for-pennsylvania-trumps-philadelphia-suburban-problem-lingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearning for Pennsylvania: Trump&#8217;s Suburban Dilemma in Philly Persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpining-for-pennsylvania-trumps-philadelphia-suburban-problem-lingers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2229768&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses Pennsylvania as a critical battleground\u2064 for the 2024 elections,\u2064 focusing on \u2064Trump&#8217;s challenges with \u2063suburban voters, especially in the Philadelphia collar-county area. It highlights Nikki Haley&#8217;s significant voter support in specific Pennsylvania counties and examines the importance \u2064of winning over various voter demographics for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-messina-urges-biden-campaign-to-draw-straight-contrast-against-trump-in-2024\/\" title=\"Jim Messina advises the Biden campaign to clearly differentiate from Trump in 2024\">successful campaign strategy<\/a>. The piece delves\u2063 into Pennsylvania&#8217;s pivotal \u200brole in the 2024\u2062 elections, shedding light on\u2062 Trump&#8217;s struggles with suburban voters in the\u2063 Philadelphia collar-county region. It showcases Nikki \u200dHaley&#8217;s substantial backing in select\u200c Pennsylvania counties and emphasizes the necessity of appealing to diverse \u2064voter demographics for\u2064 a winning campaign strategy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Pennsylvania is the ultimate battleground for 2024, with the White House, Senate, and House all poised to flip based on how voters here cast their ballots. In this series,<strong> Pining for Pennsylvania: Unlocking the crucial Keystone State<\/strong>, the <\/em>Washington Examiner<em> will look at the demographics, politics, and key areas that have made Pennsylvania the must-watch state of the year.\u00a0Part six, below, looks at how <\/em>the suburbs are a major concern for Donald Trump\u2019s campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s struggles with suburban voters have plagued him throughout the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-Elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"2024 primary cycle\">2024 primary cycle<\/a>, continuing even when he is the only GOP candidate still in the race. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s trouble with the voting demographic was particularly noticeable in the Pennsylvania primary, where despite Trump winning nearly 84% of the vote, or 790,000 votes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nikki-haley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Nikki Haley\">Nikki Haley<\/a>, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, won more than 157,000 votes, or nearly 17%, roughly seven weeks after suspending her presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no question that there\u2019s work that the former president has to do with suburban voters, particularly suburban women, particularly in the Philadelphia collar-county area,\u201d Christian Nascimento, chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Committee, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/election-2024\/?utm_source=homepage&#038;utm_medium=banner&#038;utm_campaign=iowa_caucus&#038;utm_id=election2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ELECTION 2024: FOLLOW LATEST COVERAGE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia\u2019s collar counties include Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware counties. The \u201ccollar counties\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/09\/this-map-shows-how-biden-won-back-pennsylvania-in-the-2020-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"shifted more in Democrats favor in 2020,\">shifted more in Democrats\u2019 favor in 2020,<\/a> with Biden significantly expanding the margins by which then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the counties in 2016 against Trump before ultimately losing the state.<\/p>\n<p>Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 by just 44,000 votes, while Biden flipped the state in 2020 by over 80,000 votes.\u00a0The thin margin by which the state has been won in the past two presidential cycles means that if enough Haley voters cross over to Biden in November or simply sit out the election, it could sink Trump\u2019s chances to win the state back.<\/p>\n<p>Haley\u2019s top performances in Pennsylvania\u2019s 2024 primaries were located in the Philadelphia collar counties, particularly in Montgomery and Chester counties, where she won 25% of the vote in both counties. <\/p>\n<p>The next top two Haley strongholds were in Delaware County and Cumberland County, where she won 23% of the vote in both counties. In nearby Bucks County, Haley won 19% of the vote. <\/p>\n<p>Biden won the majority of these counties, except for Cumberland, in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Democratic pollster Matt McDermott <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattmfm\/status\/1783085767624970276\">called Tuesday\u2019s results<\/a> a \u201cmajor red flag for Republicans.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Republicans, however, tempered those warnings. <\/p>\n<p>Nascimento told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>that Tuesday\u2019s results were due to a \u201csleepy primary\u201d but that it won\u2019t lead to dire problems for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the thing that he can do to work on that is focus on his policies and really shine a light on the differences between where we were when he was in office versus where things are under President Biden,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>In Dauphin County, another place Biden won in 2020, Haley won 21% of the vote. Dauphin County also includes Harrisburg, Pennsylvania\u2019s state capital.<\/p>\n<p>Haley won 20% of the vote in Erie County, another Biden 2020 county, and Lancaster County, which Trump won in 2020%. <\/p>\n<p>Haley also won 19% in Allegheny County, home to Pittsburgh, and 19% in Centre County, both of which went for Biden in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Morris, Mercyhurst University senior political analyst and chairman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-washed-up-leftists-who-found-homes-in-academia\/\" title=\"5 Washed Up Leftists Who Found Homes In Academia\">political science department<\/a>,\u00a0spent a decade conducting polls in Pennsylvania and is conducting in-depth interviews with voters in Erie County.<\/p>\n<p>In this northwestern part of Pennsylvania, the winner of the county has gone on to win the state and presidency in several elections. <\/p>\n<p>An overwhelming majority of Erie County residents told Morris they were turned off by moments when Trump threw paper towels at people in Puerto Rico devastated by Hurricane Maria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a state that has a great deal of empathy. We\u2019re socially conservative, but we have a great deal of empathy for people who are suffering,\u201d Morris said. \u201cThat bombastic rhetoric probably doesn\u2019t play as well in most of Pennsylvania as it does in other places.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, Saturday, April 13, 2024. (AP Photo\/Joe Lamberti)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Morris claimed there is a playbook that Trump could take to win the Keystone State that doesn\u2019t involve winning Haley supporters or Biden-sympathetic Republican voters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look back to 2016, Donald Trump\u2019s strategy was not to go to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and win votes,\u201d Morris said. \u201cHe went to all of the other communities in Pennsylvania and really pushed turnout up really high, and that offset his performance in those other counties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if he is interested in doing as well in Pennsylvania, as he did in 2016, then I think that\u2019s his best strategy,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Some political experts cautioned against assuming that Haley voters would abandon Trump in November. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of those voters, they\u2019re going to come home. There\u2019s no need to win them over. They are going to be loyal to the Republican Party,\u201d said Sam Chen, principal director of the strategy firm The Liddell Group and a former staffer to retired Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey. \u201cThis was an opportunity to put a protest up. But a lot of voters they need to be won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Chen cautioned that in conservative Centre County, Trump\u2019s margins were concerning. \u201cThat\u2019s not a great number for Donald Trump in that part of the state,\u201d he said referring to the northern and middle sections of the state known as the \u201cmiddle T.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the exception of Dauphin County, which is Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the capital, that is a very, very red, very Republican area,\u201d Chen said. \u201cWhen Sen. Toomey won statewide twice, a big part of that was claiming that middle T.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign did not resist slamming Trump for continuing to hemorrhage Haley voters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross the battleground states, hundreds of thousands of *Republican* voters have come out AGAINST Trump,\u201d wrote spokesman Ammar Moussa in an email sent out Wednesday afternoon. \u201cEven though he\u2019s been the presumptive nominee for seven weeks, he is not building the coalition necessary to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-pulls-in-53m-in-strongest-grassroots-fundraising-month-yet\/\" title=\"Biden's campaign secures a record M in its most successful month of grassroots fundraising\">win 270 electoral votes<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Yet the Trump campaign dismissed the attacks in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident\u00a0Trump continued\u00a0his winning streak and delivered a resounding primary win in Pennsylvania,\u201d said Karoline Leavitt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ian-sams-former-kamala-aide-and-grillary-clinton-apron-model-lands-new-gig-as-bidens-covid-spox\/\" title=\"Ian Sams, Former Kamala Aide and \u2018Grillary Clinton\u2019 Apron Model, Lands New Gig as Biden\u2019s COVID Spox\">national press secretary<\/a> for the Trump campaign. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore importantly,\u00a0President\u00a0Trump\u00a0continues to\u00a0dominate Feeble Joe\u00a0Biden in\u00a0every\u00a0battleground state\u00a0poll\u00a0including\u00a0his home state,\u201d Leavitt continued. \u201cThe Dishonest Biden campaign has spent millions in Pennsylvania gaslighting voters, but it is not enough to make everyone ignore Bidenflation and rising costs, Biden\u2019s border bloodbath, and his war on American energy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A Republican National Committee spokesperson referred the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> to polls showing voter dissatisfaction with Biden\u2019s handling of the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/610349\/political-economic-indicators-not-promising-biden.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>economy<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1747457319162478865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>border crisis<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1737148559353422224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>foreign policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>All of which Nascimento said Trump should highlight to Pennsylvania voters in the lead-up to the November election. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should talk about the Abraham accords and talk about what he did in the Middle East and how this type of situation that we have now, several situations, wasn\u2019t happening under his watch,\u201d Nascimento said of how Trump should discuss the multiple conflicts currently happening including the battle between Israel and Hamas. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania emerges as the pivotal battleground for 2024, where the Presidency, Senate, and House hang in the balance. The Washington Examiner&#8217;s series, &#8220;Pining for Pennsylvania: Exploring the Keystone State,&#8221; delves into the demographics, politics, and vital regions shaping Pennsylvania&#8217;s status as the state to watch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2229769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24052784118107.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24052784118107.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}