{"id":3017,"date":"2020-06-06T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/biden-is-facing-a-real-enthusiasm-problem-in-home-state-of-pennsylvania\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T12:36:00","slug":"biden-is-facing-a-real-enthusiasm-problem-in-home-state-of-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/biden-is-facing-a-real-enthusiasm-problem-in-home-state-of-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden is facing a real enthusiasm problem in home state of Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Biden is facing a real enthusiasm problem in home state of Pennsylvania<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n PITTSBURGH \u2014 Despite a deadly pandemic, staggering unemployment and racial unrest, Pennsylvania voters showed up in record numbers to take part in their presidential primary Tuesday \u2014 even though the results were a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are already looking at a 40 percent voter turnout, which is what we hit in 2016 where there were still contested races on both sides of the aisle,\u201d said Rich Fitzgerald, Allegheny County executive. \u201cThese numbers are way off the charts.\u201d<\/p>\n

And judging by the numbers so far, President Trump drew voters out in force. With almost 98 percent of districts counted, Republicans have cast more than 861,000 ballots for Donald Trump, with 734,000 Democrats voting for Joe Biden. And while it\u2019s still unclear how many people voted in person versus mail-in ballot, some counties are reporting that Trump drew plenty of supporters out of their homes.<\/p>\n

Most voters who cast in-person ballots in the suburban Pittsburgh county of Beaver, for example, were Republicans, said Daniel Camp, a GOP elected official there. \u201cRepublican turnout in person outperformed Democrat turnout in a county where there are 10,000 more registered Democrats,\u201d Camp said.<\/p>\n

Voting in person, especially given all the risks of the times, demonstrates a high level of enthusiasm, said Jeff Brauer, Keystone College political science<\/a> professor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Republicans had even less to vote for than Democrats did,\u201d Brauer said. \u201cThere were no statewide contested races on the Republican side \u2014 the Democrats at least had the six-person Auditor General<\/a> race \u2014 and Trump had long secured the nomination with never having a serious challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a fairly rare phenomenon in American politics. It\u2019s usually hard enough to get Americans to vote when their vote actually matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of press time, Trump had earned 94 percent of Pennsylvania Republicans\u2019 primary votes \u2014 with a minuscule protest vote going to either Bill Weld or Rocky De La Fuente.<\/p>\n

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Trump supporters came out in droves to cheer on President Trump when he visited medical supply distributor, Owens and Minor Inc., in Allentown, Penn., in May.<\/span>AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, Biden, who boasts Scranton as his hometown and has based his national campaign headquarters in Philadelphia, has earned just under 78 percent of his party\u2019s support. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hawaiian Rep. Tulsi Gabbard ate away at his numbers, with Sanders winning nearly 20 percent of the vote even though he has dropped out of the race and urged his supporters to back Biden.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, only registered party members can vote in their party\u2019s primary in this state and there are app<\/a>roximately 800,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

In some counties, including Erie, Washington and Beaver, the percentage of Biden voters slipped to the low 70s. These ancestral Democratic counties are important, because this is where voters turned out in droves for Trump in 2016, helping to match the blue votes in and around Philadelphia to give him a squeaker of a victory.<\/p>\n

Four years ago, pundits dismissed the overwhelming number of Trump signs posted on back roads, farms and highways in Rust Belt states as an unscientific measure of voter enthusiasm. But the signs for Trump (and lack of signs for his opponent Hillary Clinton) revealed a passion factor that traditional polls missed.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Trump signs are once again everywhere in Pennsylvania. And Biden signs seem nonexistent.<\/p>\n

Joanne Moyer said her Ruffs Dale sign company near Pittsburgh just finished making a life-size cutout of Trump for a customer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s pretty much the norm for us,\u201d said Moyer, who has owned the business with her husband Leon for over 30 years. \u201cThere has actually been an increase in business over 2016, even though this is an overwhelming Democrat area and, even with the shutdown, people came in wearing masks to get their signs for Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrat Larry Ceisler, a Philly-based business consultant who voted for Biden in this primary, said he saw no campaign signs for the ex-VP at his polling station in West Mt. Airy \u2014 a place he calls \u201cthe most liberal neighborhood between Cambridge and Berkeley.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite the risks caused by the pandemic, many Pennsylvanians \u2014 like these in Pittsburgh \u2014 left their homes to vote in person in the state\u2019s presidential primary.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While national polls show Biden leading Trump, it\u2019s the swing states that matter. And the latest Change Research poll shows the two candidates neck and neck in battleground states won by Trump in 2016. Both men are tied in Wisconsin, Biden holds a slim lead in North Carolina and Michigan, and here in Pennsylvania, Trump leads by 4 percentage points. Winning Pennsylvania is crucial for Biden \u2014 no Democrat has lost here and won the presidency since 1960.<\/p>\n

David La Torre, a Republican public affairs executive, said he\u2019s only seen one Biden sign in Pennsylvania so far \u2014 and that wasn\u2019t even in person.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a borough councilman, celebrating on social media<\/a> the picture he took of a Biden sign in somebody\u2019s yard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump signs, meanwhile, he\u2019s seen a lot of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are everywhere,\u201d La Torre said, \u201cand many of them are homemade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salena Zito is the author of \u201cThe Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics\u201d (Crown Forum), out now.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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