'It's going to be tight': Tim Walz rallies Pennsylvanians for final stretch in Biden's home town

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Fri 25 Oct 2024 20.46 EDT
Last modified on Fri 25 Oct 2024 21.14 EDT


Tim Walz delivered a rousing pep talk in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Friday, encouraging supporters to do everything they can in the next 11 days to elect Kamala Harris as president.

Addressing hundreds of voters at the Scranton Cultural Center, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee compared the final days of the neck-and-neck presidential race between Harris and Donald Trump to the fourth quarter of a football game, leaning on his background as a former high school teacher and coach. “It’s going to be tight. It’s the fourth quarter. We have got the best team on the field,” Walz said. “We have got to do this one inch at a time, one yard at a time, one door at a time, one call at a time, one dollar at a time, one vote at a time.”

The rally came as polls show a deadlocked race between Harris and Trump, despite hundreds of millions of dollars having been spent in the battleground states. According to the Guardian’s poll tracker, Harris now leads Trump by less than 1 point in Pennsylvania, which could serve as the tipping point state in the electoral college.

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, warned supporters in Scranton against the “dangerous complacency” of downplaying the threat that Trump represents to the country. “We are running like everything is on the line because everything is on the line. It is. We feel it. You know it,” Walz said. “[Trump] is telling you what he is going to do, and none of it is good.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/25/tim-walz-scranton-rally

[displacedvermoter]

1. So the poll that showed Harris up by four in PA

just Thursday should not be believed either?

It is all baffling to me at this point, frankly.....

[Lovie777]

2. Harris/Walz is favored to win PA................

logic in my opinion, keep saying it's tight, works with me.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The "polls" (at least the aggregator averages) are meaningless

as it had been expected, and now pretty much confirmed, that the GOP would commission a pile of GOP-leaning, barely known "pollsters" to "flood the zone", like they did in 2022.

From what I gather, rather than wait to the very end (a month or two) to do it, causing the foaming-at-the-mouth media to declare a "Red Tsunami" and then get burnt, they started adding those skewed polls earlier in the season in order to introduce the bullshit more incrementally, with the hopes that it would make those polls look "legit".

[LisaL]

4. Polls are all over the place.

Also, do you think the argument that we are ahead so don't bother to vote is going to work well toward getting a candidate elected?

[displacedvermoter]

5. Who said that?

Nobody in this thread said that, so why are you saying it?

[FBaggins]

6. Do you WANT to believe that poll?

Because it actually showed that among those who actually planned on voting - she was down by one.

She led by four among those who could vote.