Cspan3. Joining us via zoom is laura, washington correspondent for the morning call. We talk about the battleground states in campaign 2020. Lets go back to 2016. What are the lessons for democrats and republicans as they gear up for the Fall Campaign . Pennsylvania is going to be a very close state again. 2016 was a long night. We had a final vote margin in the president ial race of 2400 votes. It was a pretty unusual change because democrats had done well in the president ial race, even though it was a swing state, and trump was able to boost republican turnout in rural areas where they struggle to turn out and he was able to flip some democratic areas that had previously supported barack obama. A couple key counties, including in our area, and those were pretty pivotal changes. Since then, you have actually seen some trends that have been accelerating, and most of those are democrat. Those area of the southeastern part of the state that has been in philadelphia, moving toward democr
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Be a very close state again. 2016 was a long night. We had a final vote margin of 44,000 votes. All eyes have been on pennsylvania, what will happen here. There was a pretty unusual change because the democrats had done well in the president ial race. The swing state and the republican turnout in the area. He was able to focus on democratic areas that previously supported barack obama. And number of key counties. They were pretty typical changes. Since then, you have seen some friends that have accelerated and they have mostly been democrats. Areas in southeastern part of the state that has had been moving towards democrats. Democrats have picked up some sent races and the state it into the u. S. House and the 2018 election with a delegation that did not have any women previously. That was alluded to the democratic delegation. It is a really interesting environment on the ground right now. With pennsylvania joining michigan and wisconsin with the socalled lou off at the democrats. 2020
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