All eyes are on Pennsylvania—again

For Democrats and the GOP, victory runs through Pennsylvania. 

The penultimate poll of the state by Siena College for The New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer finds Democratic nominee Kamala Harris ahead of Donald Trump by 4 percentage points among likely voters.

The candidates held dueling rallies in the Keystone State on Monday—Harris in Erie, and Trump at a town hall in Oaks—as their campaigns heavily target the state’s 19 electoral votes. Each focused on the economy, small businesses, home ownership, and inflation before things got, well, different.

After Harris played a clip of a recent interview with Trump where he pledged to use the military to go after Americans with liberal political views—adding to a chorus of authors and scholars blasting it as autocratic—she made the stakes of the race clear.

“We know who he would target because he’s attacked them before: journalists whose stories he doesn’t like, election officials who refuse to cheat … judges who insist on following the law instead of bending to his will,” Harris said. “This is among the reasons I believe so strongly that a second Trump term would be a huge risk for America, and dangerous.”

When her rally-goers started chanting, “Lock him up,” mimicking MAGA’s 2016 rally cries against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Harris told them, “The courts will handle that. Let’s handle November, shall we?”