BATTLING IT OUT
This may be felt most strongly in Pennsylvania the place the victory path to the White Home runs straight by way of.
The state has 19 Electoral Faculty votes, probably the most of any battleground state, and has solely picked the dropping candidate twice. It fell to present Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump in 2016 earlier than turning blue for President Joe Biden in 2020 – each instances by the narrowest of margins.
This 12 months, polls recommend the race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, who’s the Democratic Get together’s nominee, stays too near name.
Voters will head to the poll field on Nov 5.
Each candidates’ positions on fracking have each attracted and alienated Individuals, with emotions on all sides operating deep within the tussle to show the razor-tight state pink or blue.
Trump has slammed Harris for feedback she made throughout her first bid for the US presidency years in the past, when she stated there was “no query” that she was “in favour of banning fracking”.
She then made a U-turn in August, swearing off any prior assertion that she opposed the apply.
Through the two candidates’ televised debate final month, Trump repeatedly claimed that she would ban fracking if she turns into president. Harris responded that she wouldn’t impose such a ban.
Her change in stance sits in stark distinction to Trump’s endorsement.
On Wednesday (Oct 9), he delivered speeches in Pennsylvania the place he vowed to unleash American power.
“On day one, I’ll inform Pennsylvania power staff to frack, frack, frack, and drill, drill, drill, child, drill,” he stated.
