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Kamala Harris dealt polling blow in Pennsylvania ahead of Trump debate
Vice President Kamala Harris has faced another setback in the polls, with a recent survey indicating she is trailing former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, critical to her chances of winning the presidency.
The latest blow came from a co/efficient poll conducted between September 4 and 6, which found Trump holding a slight lead among 889 likely voters in Pennsylvania. Trump received 48 percent support, while Harris garnered 46 percent, with a 3 percent margin of error.
This poll was released just hours before the highly anticipated first presidential debate between the two candidates, set to take place in Philadelphia, the largest city in the state, since Harris secured her party’s nomination in July. It will also mark the first time Trump and Harris will share the same stage.
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The most populous presidential swing state has sided with the winner of the past two elections, each time by just tens of thousands of votes. Polling this year suggests Pennsylvania will be closed once more in November.
The co/efficient poll is the latest setback for Harris in Pennsylvania, where three polls from late August also showed her trailing Donald Trump. Earlier polls by Cygnal and Emerson College, conducted from August 13 to 15, also had Trump ahead by 1 point in the key battleground state.
However, not all polls show Trump ahead. A Morning Consult poll conducted between August 30 and September 8 placed Harris 3 points ahead of Trump, with 49 percent support to his 46 percent.
The race remains extremely tight, and it’s too early to draw any firm conclusions. According to FiveThirtyEight’s poll aggregator, Harris trails Trump by just 0.7 percent, while RealClearPolling shows the two candidates in a tie, each with 47.6 percent support.
For Democrats, winning big in Philadelphia and its suburbs will be key for Harris, especially in a city where Black residents are the largest racial group. At the same time, she will need to narrow Trump’s margins among white voters in rural and small-town Pennsylvania.
Losing Pennsylvania would make Harris’s path to the presidency much more difficult, given the state’s 19 valuable Electoral College votes.
Both candidates know what’s at stake and have visited Pennsylvania frequently. In August, Harris introduced her running mate, Tim Walz, in Philadelphia, with an energizing speech from Governor Josh Shapiro.
Trump, meanwhile, survived an assassination attempt in Butler County on July 14 and has since returned to Pennsylvania four times, holding rallies in Harrisburg, Johnstown, and Philadelphia. His speeches have largely focused on energy and criticisms of Harris’s energy policies.
The stakes are especially high for Harris—no Democrat has won the White House without Pennsylvania since 1948.
Before Harris became the Democratic nominee, most polls showed Trump leading President Joe Biden in the state by 2 to 7 points, according to FiveThirtyEight.
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It’s no secret that things that used to be within reach for most families are now significantly more expensive.
As such, many may observe a heightened focus on which family pastimes simply burn holes in your wallets and which give you the most bang for your buck. This one in Pennsylvania has been found to be among the former, at least, according to a new study.
CouponBirds — which is described by its “About Us” page as a company that “focus[es] on collecting, validating, and ranking optimal coupons, to help online shoppers save both time and money” — published a report last week which asked the question “Are These U.S. Family Attractions Too Expensive For What They Offer?”
Researchers answered this question by forming a list of 35,000 family-friendly attractions across the United States of America by searching for ones that were “Good for Kids” by each state’s TripAdvisor page.
Each attraction that was found was then analyzed based on whether or not the word (or words relating to) “expensive” popped up in their reviews. Each was then ranked and the study, finalized.
Hershey’s Chocolate World in Hershey was thus determined to be Pennsylvania’s worst-value attraction for families. On the bright side, at least it didn’t crack the top 20.
No, reader, that honor goes to the likes of Walt Disney Resort, Universal Studios, and Disney’s Magic Kingdom — all of which are in Floria — which took the third, second and first spots, respectively.
“Disney fan website Inside the Magic notes that, in addition to being highly expensive, the magic Kingdom Park has lost much of its ‘magic,’” reads the report. “Overcrowding, long queues and broken rides contribute to a significantly lower overall TripAdvisor rating thank parks Hollywood Studios or EPCOT.”
Other attractions that made it among the top 20 worst for families in the nation were Cedar Point in Ohio — which was ranked 18th overall — and Dollywood in Tennessee (12th).
Gas prices are dropping in western Pennsylvania.
According to AAA, the average price in the area is $3.575, which is 5 cents cheaper than last week.
Below are the average prices for different areas:
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$3.685 Beaver
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$3.568 Butler
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$3.616 Greensburg
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$3.600 Indiana
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$3.599 Jeannette
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$3.698 Kittanning
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$3.559 Latrobe
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$3.717 Mercer
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$3.495 New Castle
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$3.516 New Kensington
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$3.597 Oil City
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$3.609 Pittsburgh
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$3.519 Sharon
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$3.605 Uniontown
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$3.773 Warren
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$3.446 Washington
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