Pennsylvania
Trump 2024 opens first campaign office in the state of Pennsylvania – Washington Examiner
Former President Donald Trump’s political campaign opened an office in Philadelphia on Tuesday night.
It is the first office the Trump campaign has opened in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. The Keystone State is expected to be one of the closest races in the nation in November, and many experts suggest that whoever wins the state will win the presidency.
The grand opening of the office, aptly named the “Trump Force 47 Office Grand Opening,” had the regular pomp and circumstance of a campaign office opening. It featured Congressman Wesley Hunt (R-TX), as the guest speaker for the event. He was joined by several other esteemed members of the Pennsylvania Republican Party including Chairman Lawrence Tabas.
Tabas, the state’s head when Trump lost in 2020, spoke of the importance of electing Trump in 2024.
“It’s important to recognize that we need new leadership in America, we need new leadership in Pennsylvania,” Tabas said. “Bidenomics has been a failure.”
Hunt delivered an impassioned speech about why voters must support Trump in the election over Biden. He was also there as part of Trump’s voter outreach campaign for black Americans in Philadelphia. While speaking to the crowd, Hunt stood at a podium with a sign that read “Black Americans for Trump.”
“Black issues are American issues,” Hunt said. “It is time for our country to coalesce around President Trump to save us from the brink of disaster.”
Additionally, the congressman from Texas highlighted the failures of the Biden administration, emphasizing the economy, gas prices, inflation, the border crisis, and the increase in violent crime since Biden’sBiden took office.
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Trump lost Pennsylvania in a close race to Biden in 2020. However, he defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016, becoming the first Republican to win the state in a presidential election since George H.W. Bush in 1988. Currently, Trump has a 2.3% lead in the state, according to Real Clear Politics.
More Trump campaign offices are expected to open around the rest of Pennsylvania in the coming weeks.
The war with Iran could start impacting your wallet as soon as today.
Jim Garrity from AAA East Central says oil prices are up.
“They’re hovering around $72. They were pretty consistently around $65, $66 for a while,” he said.
Nationally, AAA said the average for a gallon of regular sits at about $3, up approximately six cents from last week.
In Pennsylvania, it’s around $3.12 a gallon, and in the Pittsburgh region, it’s around $3.24 a gallon. That’s actually down about four cents from last week.
Garrity added that gas prices this time of year would already be increasing, usually because of higher demand for the warmer months and the production of the summer blend of gas used for those months.
The impacts of what’s happening in Iran may not be immediate, which could be part of why our region and the state overall have not seen a spike yet, he said.
“It could be a couple of days later. It could be up to a week later,” Garrity said.
A lot of people are watching what happens with the Strait of Hormuz. Iran borders it to the north, and 20% of the world’s oil goes through it.
Iran is one of the world’s biggest oil producers, and China gets a lot of that oil.
“If there is an impact there, you could see oil start to come in from other parts of the world, which has a downstream effect on [the United States],” Garrity said.
One way you can save on gas if prices increase in our area is by slowing down.
“When you drive faster every five miles, over 50 miles an hour, your fuel efficiency is going down,” Garrity said. “You’re making the car work harder, making the gasoline consumption less effective.”
Garrity added that in 2022, when our area and many others saw some of the highest gas prices ever recorded, people changed their driving habits.
“We saw people make seemingly permanent changes to their driving behaviors, driving less in general, consolidating trips,” he said.
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