Pennsylvania
Fry cook Trump cooks up supersized Pennsylvania victory in fresh polling
More polling from the Keystone State suggests Donald Trump may avenge his bitter loss there four years ago.
And the “Trump strength” is even greater than what his numbers show, Trafalgar Group pollster Robert Cahaly tells The Post — possibly enough to flip a Democratic Senate seat.
Against Kamala Harris in the main event, the former president and recent McDonald’s shift worker is cooking up a victory in Pennsylvania just as he fried up a passel of potato strips Sunday in Feasterville-Trevose.
Trump is up 46% to 43% over the Democratic quasi-incumbent, indicating arches aren’t the only things that are golden for the man from Mar-a-Lago in the state, whose 19 electoral votes are better than the prize in any Happy Meal.
Cahaly notes Trump is also winning the crossover vote, saying he “has more strength among registered Ds than she does among registered Rs.”
Five percent of voters don’t know whom they’re backing, and 5% are behind someone else.
But despite that patina of uncertainty, Cahaly contends the race isn’t as close as it may seem, spotlighting how national media framed polls — or a lack thereof — on their Sunday gabfests.
“The mainstream/left leaning polls see it too,” the pollster says regarding his rivals in the survey space and a seeming silence about this critical swing state.
“Isn’t it amazing there was nothing new posted today? Nothing from any of the networks or news channels,” Cahaly comments.
Other polling has shown a closer race in the Keystone State, such as a Massachusetts-Lowell survey that found a 1-point lead for Harris. All told, Trump has a 0.8-point lead on average, per RealClearPolitics.
Even many polls that’ve been favorable to Trump in given states haven’t shown him as able to elevate a Senate candidate. But the Trafalgar survey suggests what Cahaly calls “Trump strength” may be enough to eject legacy Democrat Bob Casey from his Senate seat.
But the margin here is thinner than even a wafer-thin beef sheet on a Philly cheesesteak, with Republican Dave McCormick up 47.2% to 46.8%, with 6% of respondents undecided.
Will those undecided voters split their tickets in the end, embracing a Trump restoration while enabling a Harris lackey to go back to DC and undermine his agenda?
That’s the question the few voters still up for grabs in this all-important blue-wall bellwether will have to answer between now and Nov. 5.
Pennsylvania
Lawmaker Forced to Resign After Repeating Elon Musk’s Salute
NOTHING TO SEE HERE
Lest there be any doubt who inspired her, Laura Smith used Musk’s “my heart goes out to you” line.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin in the spotlight with high-stakes court elections
Big spending expected from outside groups
In Pennsylvania, November’s general election will feature three Democrats running to retain their seats, putting Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the line. All three justices — Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht — face a “yes” or “no” vote to win another 10-year term.
Pending in Pennsylvania courts are cases that challenge laws limiting the use of Medicaid to cover the cost of abortions and requiring certain mail-in ballots to be disqualified.
In 2023, business associations, political party campaign arms, Planned Parenthood, partisan advocacy groups, labor unions, lawyers’ groups, environmental organizations and wealthy GOP donors, including Richard Uihlein and Jeffrey Yass, pushed spending above $70 million in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
The Wisconsin race alone topped $51 million, breaking national records for spending on a judicial race.
Abortion rights were the dominant theme in that contest, won by a Democratic-backed judge whose victory gave liberals majority control of the court for the first time in 15 years.
Wisconsin’s race this year is expected to cost even more, with the two candidates already raising more than was brought in at this point in 2023.
Schimel, in an interview last year on WISN-AM, said outside groups “are committed to making sure we take back the majority on this court” and that he was confident “we’re going to have the money to do the things we have to do to win this.”
He recently launched a $1.1 million television ad buy statewide, marking the first spending on TV ads in the race. Crawford went on the air a week later.
Spending exceeded $22 million in Pennsylvania’s 2023 contest won by the Democrat, whose campaign focused on attackingrulings by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority.
Pennsylvania
Nurse aide training hub created to fight Pennsylvania healthcare staffing crisis
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – In order to fight the healthcare staffing crisis in Pennsylvania, the Training and Education Fund will open a new training hub in Western P.A. due to its previous Pittsburgh success.
“We’re excited to be able to expand the great work we’re already doing in these communities,” said Lisa Williams, Executive Director of the Training and Education Fund.
The new training hub is being funded by an almost $400,000 PA Industry Partnership grant in conjunction with the PA Workforce Development Board, the Department of Labor and Industry and the Department of Community and Economic Development.
The training hub will partner with Saber Healthcare, Transitions Healthcare, Southern Alleghenies Workforce Development Board and more organizations to bring more caregivers back into the field.
TEF said Pennsylvania’s long-term care industry has been in the middle of a staffing crisis for years but was worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recent workforce estimates and data show that around 30 percent of Certified Nurse Aides left bedside care and now there is a very minimal amount of caregivers entering the long-term care field to replace them, according to TEF.
“Pennsylvania desperately needs more well-trained CNAs, training and support programs for people who want to start a career in healthcare as a CNA are often incredibly difficult to access,” said Matthew Yarnell, President of SEIU Healthcare PA.
To find our more information visit TEF’s website.
-
Technology1 week ago
Nintendo omits original Donkey Kong Country Returns team from the remaster’s credits
-
Culture1 week ago
American men can’t win Olympic cross-country skiing medals — or can they?
-
Culture7 days ago
Book Review: ‘Somewhere Toward Freedom,’ by Bennett Parten
-
World1 week ago
Chrystia Freeland, Justin Trudeau’s ‘Minister of Everything,’ Enters Race to Replace Him
-
Education1 week ago
Report Projecting Drop in Freshman Enrollment Delivered Incorrect Findings
-
News1 week ago
CNN liable for defamation over story on Afghanistan 'black market' rescues
-
World1 week ago
‘Fields were solitary’: Migration raids send chill across rural California
-
World1 week ago
Commission claims slashing of foreign offices still under negotiation