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Trump and Harris on Keystone collision course as campaigns pick up the pace
Labor Day – which is traditionally the starting gun for the final stretch in a presidential election – is now in the rearview mirror.
“Sixty-four days until the most important election of our lives, and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation,” Vice President Kamala Harris emphasized as she spoke to supporters at a union gathering in Pittsburgh on Monday.
Tuesday marks nine weeks until Election Day 2024, when Harris and former President Donald Trump face off with the White House at stake.
However, in reality, the election gets underway well before Nov. 5.
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)
In a slew of states, the election actually kicks off this month.
In swing state North Carolina, absentee ballots are mailed out starting on Friday. Early voting begins on Sept. 16 in Pennsylvania and Sept. 26 in Michigan, two other crucial electoral battlegrounds.
Next Tuesday, Harris and Trump are scheduled to meet for their first and potentially only presidential debate, a primetime showdown taking place in Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania, the biggest of the seven crucial battlegrounds that decided the 2020 election between Trump and President Biden, is getting plenty of attention this week.
Harris returns to Pittsburgh on Thursday, her second trip this week to western Pennsylvania’s largest city and union stronghold, and her 10th stop this year in the Keystone State.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden arrive at a campaign event at the IBEW Local Union #5 union hall in Pittsburgh on Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Trump, who has also made numerous trips to Pennsylvania this year, returns on Wednesday to headline a Fox News town hall hosted by Sean Hannity in Harrisburg.
Most of the latest national surveys show Harris with a slight single-digit edge over Trump, but the presidential election is not a national popular vote contest. It is a battle for the individual states and their electoral votes.
The latest surveys in the seven key swing states indicate a margin-of-error race. Among those polls are a batch from Fox News that made headlines last week.
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Trump argues he has the momentum.
“We’re leading in the polls now,” the former president said in an interview Friday with Fox News’ Bryan Llenas.
Minutes later, at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Trump touted that “our poll numbers are starting to skyrocket.”
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamalas Harris. (Getty Images)
Harris is urging her supporters not to pay too much attention to the polls because, as she reiterated on Labor Day, “we are the underdog in this race.”
Last week, at a rally in Savannah, Georgia, the vice president predicted that “this is going to be a tight race until the very end.”
The current state of the race is a big change from earlier this summer when Biden was still running.
Biden’s disastrous performance against Trump in their late June debate turned up the volume of existing doubts from Americans that the 81-year-old president would have the physical and mental stamina to handle another four years in the White House. It also sparked a rising chorus of calls from top Democratic Party allies and elected officials for Biden to drop out of the race.
National and battleground state polls conducted in July indicated Trump had opened up a small but significant lead over Biden.
The president dropped his re-election bid on July 21 and endorsed his vice president, and Democrats immediately coalesced around Harris, who quickly enjoyed a boost in her poll numbers and in fundraising.
Still, pollsters and political analysts stress that the Harris-Trump contest remains a coin-flip at this point.
However, Trump’s team likes the current poll position, as they point out that the former president has a history of outperforming public opinion surveys.
“At this point in the race in 2016, Donald Trump was down to Hillary Clinton by an average of 5.9 points. At this point in the race in 2020, it was 6.9 to Joe Biden,” senior adviser Corey Lewandowski noted this weekend in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
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Revival Today Church in Moon Township is asking the township for a conditional use permit after being barred from hosting outdoor services last year.
On Monday, Moon Township’s Board of Supervisors heard testimony regarding the megachurch’s revised plans for using its proposed 18,000-plus square-foot tent for outdoor services. Neighbors say the outdoor services are too loud, and the road to the church can’t handle the volume of traffic.
“For our neighborhood and the neighbors of the church and the surrounding area, we are just trying to get answers, specifically the noise, which isn’t going to happen tonight,” resident Aaron Margo said on Monday. “And then the traffic.”
The attorney for the church said they are still working on a noise study, and there is some debate about whether a dedicated turn lane is needed on Coraopolis Heights Road to alleviate traffic congestion.
“They were very unprepared,” resident Amy Cooney said on Monday. “I wanted to come here today and find out about the noise. I wanted to find out because I heard about that left-hand turning lane and all the traffic.”
This is a two-step process. First, the church has to get a recommendation from the planning commission. Then the church has to get a final decision from the board of supervisors.
The church’s chief financial officer testified that they plan to construct a permanent church. The lawyer told KDKA they are trying to meet all of the requirements. They will also have a noise mitigation plan at the next board of supervisors meeting in May.
A man has been arrested in connection with a road rage incident that happened on Interstate 395 in Montville on Friday.
Police said they responded to a home in Waterford after an incident on I-395 South near exit 5.
Waterford officers responded to a home in town with one of two people believed to be involved in a road rage incident involving a gun.
Damian Brower, 28, of Ledyard, told police that he pointed a revolver at another driver because he was scared for his life. The gun, with the ammunition inside, was seized as evidence.
The other driver told police that they were driving in the left lane when a black Dodge Ram pickup truck approached. The car suddenly braked to a stop in front of them, nearly causing a crash, authorities said.
The person said they continued driving when the pickup truck starting moving again, but was brake-checked again a short time later, according to police.
That’s when the driver tried to let the pickup truck pass but instead, the driver pulled up and pointed a gun at them. Brower reportedly said, “I’ll shoot you” to the other driver, who then accelerated to try and create distance, troopers said.
Authorities said the driver got off exit 5 and Brower followed, still pointing the gun at them.
Brower was later arrested and he faces charges including first-degree threatening and breach of peace.
He was held on a $5,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court on May 8.
GRAY, Maine (WABI) – A Windham man suffered serious injuries after a crash involving a motorcycle and an SUV in Gray Monday morning.
It happened on West Gray Road around 6:30 a.m.
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office says as 59-year-old Cheryl Royal of Gray was turning, a motorcycle driven by 50-year-old William Segler struck the driver’s side of Royal’s SUV.
Officials say Segler was taken to a Portland hospital with serious injuries.
Royal was not injured.
Investigators say Royal failed to yield to the right of way, but the crash remains under investigation.
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