LATROBE, Pennsylvania— “If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole damn thing.”
Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump announced these words to rallygoers in this Westmoreland County town at a packed event, which included several former Pittsburgh Steelers and steelworkers taking the stage to endorse him; the steelworkers even got the former president to put on a hard hat that ruffled his hair.
It was a statement that made the thousands of supporters, most of whom were young, go understandably wild with emotion. Many attendees I spoke to were young women, many of them mothers with their children, who could not wait to vote in the first election they were truly excited about.
Trump wasn’t wrong. Heading into the final stretch of the election, I’d rather be him than Vice President Kamala Harris in the Keystone State. Several pollsters across the political…
