Donald Trump said in a post that Kamala Harris has “accepted defeat in Pennsylvania”, but the contest remains too close
US: Despite the different polls showing a much tighter race, Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, stated on social media that Kamala Harris ‘lost the state of Pennsylvania’ just because she was against fracking or n/gas extraction in her previous campaigns.
Former President Trump’s post on Truth Social includes a video online with the caption “Unearthed video reiterates Harris’ previous support for fracking ban,” which claims Harris’s video suggests that ‘the policy BLAST’ is still in effect. Reading it, he said that “Comrade Kamala just lost Pennsylvania.”.
Fracking is short for hydraulic fracturing, which refers to the extraction of natural gases and oils embedded in rocks using high-pressure water. This is common in the state of Pennsylvania. Environmental degradation and exposure to toxic additives through the water mixture make fracking a controversial process.
In this five-year clip, Harris pledges in her 2019 presidential run, as Trump relays the information, that she wants there to be a “fracking ban, ‘and that’s it’ never again.” The behavior is of a disillusioned person who has changed her position and is now a Democratic candidate, although the video has already gone viral in this election period.
With respect to that about face, “I think we’ve gotten somewhere in July that we don’t need a ban on fracking,” Harris said to a media report in an interview that took place in August.
“My values have not changed,” the woman added. While in Poland, Harris was determined to counter the threat of climate change and said, “I think it’s essential that we think about the measures which we need to take in order to mitigate what is clearly a climate problem.”
“And to accomplish that, maybe you know we do what we have done up to now,” she said. The Inflation Reduction Act. What we managed to do to build a clean energy economy, by the way of my forecast over the coming couple of years, is in the range of one trillion dollars. Our activities have already led to the creation of more than 300, 000 new green energy job opportunities. Being a vice president, I know that this is achievable without banning hydraulic fracturing.”
Without addressing this recent development and adding more of Harris’s messaging, it appears that Harris’s messaging is taking root—recent polling does not support Trump’s belief that the vice president will lose Pennsylvania because of his continuing support for a fracking ban. Tracking aggregate data across several states, FiveThirtyEight reports that Harris is currently ahead of Trump in Pennsylvania by 1.4 points (48.3 to 46.8%). On Saturday, pollster Nate Silver mentioned a 57% likelihood of the vice president capturing the state.
In 2016, Pennsylvania state clients voted for Trump but in 2020 the story was different: they preferred Biden. With 19 Electoral College votes, the Keystone State is an essential state which needs to be won in the race to the Presidential Palace.
Is Harris leading in Michigan by FiveThirtyEight? ‘Yes, Harris leads the state 48.6 to 45.9 or 2.7 points. This is the pattern that appears in both states with 5 other states where the candidates are separated within a point. The six other such states are these: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.
There will be enough votes from Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to secure a win in the Electoral College and in the White House as long as all other battleground states go Trump’s way.
Since 1988, these three states have been supporting the same political groups that competed in the elections: Wisconsin supported Michael Dukakis and Michigan and Pennsylvania were behind George H.W. Bush.
