District in luzerne as well, cartwright is the only incumbent democrat running for re-election in a district won by president trump in 2020. so i would say momentum with the republicans perhaps hope for the democrats. that s what makes election days so interesting. sandra: absolutely. and nobody talks to the folks on the ground like you do, jeff. talking to people one day before the election and they are feeling all these things, and they have been for quite some time. do you get the sense that there are some who are still making up their minds in these final hours? i do. there are so many people here that have been switched from one party to the other. as i said, this used to be heavily democratic. a lot of people have switched to republicans but they go back and forth. not everybody is at the extremes, most people i talk to are not. sandra: very interesting. great to have you there for us, jeff. thank you very much.
And the blue so i went to ask him about it. i love coming to your office. i love the company. i look at this, i see this, lucerne county and a bun. of numbers i don t understand. yes. what happened with george h.w. bush? george bush was president at a time when going through a turbulent period economically. good evening. there it is. the unemployment rate. 7.1%. almost 9 million americans out of work tonight. the job market is very tight. i mean you apply, and someone will tell you, there are 30 or 40 applicants. the deficit was skyrocketing. and concern there would be some serious ramifications if the national debt didn t get under control, brought under control so bush had campaigned for president in 1988, famously saying read my lips. no new taxes. probably the most famous promise he made in political
Well, where a democrat and republican at top of the ticket end up running, like georgia and pennsylvania, but here in arizona, and those who were planning to vote for oz for senate and shapiro, the democratic candidate, for governor. and they tell us it s because they simply find doug mastriano too extreme, too far to the right, and they say frankly that they haven t really seen him. they haven t really heard from him. he hasn t visited places like this. where some of the voters i talked to here in lucerne county, they say oz was here at the bridge behind me, which is now defunct, trying to understand infrastructure here, josh shapiro launched his cam pine here but they haven t seen or heard from mastriano. they feel like he is not really trying to court those voters. i want you to hear from daniel and jacqueline devine, they are probably a great example of what we ve been hearing, a great
The candidates are pulling out all the stops in this final stretch. as we talk to voters they don t seem particularly excited about, well, anyone. whether talking to republicans, democrats or independents still undecided. after the debate people sort of lost that enthusiasm and in this final stretch people are really feeling some of the pressures from the economy, their really taking these issues personally, that these candidates are talking about, and they want to hear more solution-oriented ads. more solution-oriented values, where they feel like instead there s a whole lot of attacking the opponent instead of talking about what they can do for everyday pennsylvanians. i want you to hear from two voters we talked to, tachara and arianne, met them at a dance studio here in lucerne county. talking to moms, many know, moms run the world, and see some of
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