As Republican Dave McCormick threatens to oust him in Pennsylvania's Senate race, underdog Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) is vying to stay ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats. He has praised former President Donald Trump.
Casey, who impeached and convicted Trump in 2020 and 2021, will undoubtedly deliver a different closing argument from Harris in an effort to keep pace with Trump in the nation's most important battleground states. are.
In a video shared by the Trump campaign Wednesday afternoon, Casey, in an interview with WBRE 28, spoke out against former President Barack Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership (which Trump abandoned when he took office in 2017) and He said he agrees with President Trump on replacing North Korea. Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
“I supported President Trump’s efforts to reform NAFTA and voted yes on the trade deal. This is the first trade deal I have ever voted for because we ultimately “Because we were able to stand by the workers and we had enforceable labor standards,” he said, adding that he previously opposed the Biden-Harris administration.
The Trump campaign accused Casey of being “another left-wing bastard'' who “wants Pennsylvania to forget that he knows Kamala is losing and is voting almost 100% for Kamala.'' did.
Democratic senators praised Trump when Vice President Kamala Harris said: Atlantic's A crudely disparaging article Wednesday afternoon comparing the former president to Adolf Hitler draws a stark contrast between the Democratic presidential candidate's closing argument and that of one of the party's most vulnerable senators.
Harris' blatant attempt to demonize Trump comes after Casey tried to align himself with a man who twice voted to convict him, and after two attempts on his life in recent months. The effort could indicate the situation in Pennsylvania is even worse for her than polls indicate.
One of the latest Pennsylvania polls from top polling organization Atlas Intel. 2020 cyclefound that Trump had a 3-point advantage over Harris.
Based on a sample of 2,048 likely voters from Oct. 12 to 17, Trump led 50% to 47%.
The same poll found Mr. McCormick narrowly winning over Mr. Casey, 48% to 47%. The margin of error for both races was ±2 percentage points.
Additionally, the latest Gallup poll on Tuesday found that find More Americans have a favorable view of Trump (50 percent favorable, 48 percent unfavorable). By comparison, there were more negative opinions about Harris than positive ones (48 percent had a favorable opinion, 50 percent had an unfavorable opinion).
Harris' main-race turmoil appears to be an attempt to stir up negative perceptions of the former president, given that Gallup has her trailing on the favorability front with just 13 days until Election Day.
