Inside the Messy Battle for the Biggest Swing State of 2024 | WSJ 

are you even allowed to drive and call like that? LOL

so says you anD fox news 🙄

@@dunemeow356 are you replying to the WSJ account acting like the journalist in the video is the one personally sending and pinning comments?💀

I think issue is women's rights and that's Trump downfall.

I got a WSJ advert for "Augmented Intelligence," lol

Blame MSNDC

also she's hot

I expect the ballots will be tampered with. It is not a matter of if, it is how much. Just go look back at the news in 2020 with all the Philadelphia mail-in ballot bonanza. We need to go back to where "only those with assets may vote". If you take personal handouts from the government, it also disqualifies you.

​@@rabidgoonreally😂

Yes, journalists should get both sides' statements, but they shouldn't just parrot the loudest people. There is an objective reality, not just two opinions. Both opinions have agendas and blind spots, and most issues have far more than two sides, despite what our two party system would have you believe. For example, if I'm trying to design a building, I wouldn't just talk to two random people. I'd talk to a few architects and engineers, then check their math. They should talk to both sides, then also say "this person claimed this, here's what the available evidence says for or against. Also, here's what we still don't know."

Must be some Harvard graduate that wrote this comment!

Harvard wants to know your location

Harvard hung up

Also the suburbs will be voting for Trump as expected.

@@Fener242Nope. Suburban voters are mostly educated and women, both of who are unlikely to vote for Trump.

You are.

When you are voting. You aren’t just voting for president. But also down ballot elections and referendums. Also swing states change all the time.

@@Raspberries9372but if you are a republican in California of a democrat in in Alabama you might as well stay home.

Swing states are also be bombed by huge ads money

​@@Letwoo67 The recent special election in Alabama that swung over 30 points to the democrats resulting in a dem victory of 25 points in a safe red district would prove otherwise though. Your vote always matters at the local level no matter where you are in the country. The democrats lost the house because of Republicans who voted in New York flipping several of those seats. Arizona and Georgia wouldn't be swing states today if those voters gave up and didn't vote. Just because you're not in a swing state doesn't mean your vote is meaningless!

Best comment on this thread.

It would be a disaster that the same people who voted for Kathy Hochul and Gavin Newsome would be electing presidents in a popular election. Both states have terrible government.

What do you mean owned?

@@teekay_1 Huh? NYS and CA have some of the highest qualities of life among all states. They are rich, have good educational outcomes, and good healthcare outcomes.

@@spacetoast7783 Rich ppl pay or buyout the politicians who run this country in exchange for doing what the rich want (which usually only benefits the rich). Does that make sense?

That seems grossly disrespectful.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@kordellswoffer1520as someone from Central PA he ain’t wrong haha

poconos is a mix of people from NY/NJ and also people the rural people born in the area. The vote swings.

As someone from central PA 🖕

Well no they didn't even hear the case in most of the courts. Can't say had no merit is they didn't hear it

@@ethanjohnson2849 Not hearing the case doesn’t mean no proper decision was made as to the merits. Sometimes the evidence is just so overwhelming that a case is utterly devoid of merit, so it gets dismissed. Any claim as to election fraud was backed by biased, non-official people who didn’t have a shred of proof just aspersions. That’s why all these cases were dismissed.

@@ethanjohnson2849They did hear arguments for many cases. It’s false to say they didn’t even hear anything or any evidence. That’s not true.

No they refused to listen to the evidence.

it is funny that Biden DOJ will seriously treat these cases. like proving the election is rigged and lost all their jobs?

I dont quite get why people cant all back a really solid third party candidate, the only reason i would support biden is because I think he would keep the country together long enough for someone competent to run

@@_Bear70 We have first past the post voting. Voters are incentivized to think of how other people will vote. A third party vote is acceptance of the top two.

@@spacetoast7783 Thats the problem, a third party should not be acceptance of the top two, it should be voting for who matches your view the best. Also, im pretty sure first past the post voting does not apply to presidential elections in the US.

@@_Bear70 "That's the problem. Gravity should not be acceptance to falling towards the Earth." I'm telling you how it is, not how I hope it would be.

@@_Bear70 Besides, you're forgetting the primary process. We have multi-round elections in that way.

Ga Az are 30yrs in the making they won't go back red anytime soon.. the thing is pres biden has multiple pathways which the least is to win the blue states including the rust belt + NE-2nd that get him exactly 270 EV.. where tRump can't lose any sun belt states

whatever happen in the rust belt Arizona is not going back

@@timaweyyne back to where?

@@homosexualheisenbergback to gop atleast with tRump... in realty Biden can win without them but trump can not

@@homosexualheisenberg back to the gop at least with trump

I think it's because they never have to form coliations. If two or more parties form a coalition, they spend the fist weeks hammering out compromised proposals between each parties legestion they plan on implementing that term before they even officially form. This means they all must have a concrete manifesto going into the elections, otherwise you would not to form the majority not knowing what the other party in charge will or will not do. Our fringe parties campaign like democrats and rupublicans in the US, so sometimes their nonsense gets voted in, but it's never for long or they are not even able to form a coalition, though they are the majority because no other party will form a government with them. The system keeps the far left and far right out of power.

it is simple, they use any means to win. controlling people with low levels of education/assimilation of ideas is easy, just use what make them react more easily.

You sound jelly. The fact we are the Worlds Reserve Currency is why we have a healthy middle class. Without it we would pay double for anything not made in America, and that includes fuel, food, and energy.

they are unholy, one day they shall find blockchain

same reason fearmongering videos on youtube get the most views. fear sells. look what it's done for the world's major religions.

This is because of the electoral college, and some states are trying to change this, but it would be tricky. Actually removing the electoral college would require a Constitutional amendment, which is a nightmare to achieve these days. The other option is to bypass the EC, by having states just decide for themselves to allocate votes according to the popular vote, but that would require a majority of states to agree to do that, and that too can be tricky, especially since they can't all be on one side. Republicans like the EC, because it gives them a higher chance of victory than they would have otherwise, so it's very unlikely that any red states will go along with any change to it.

@@timogulyou could technically do what the comment ask, but it’s going to have to be done one by one in every state, which no state would do because it would diminish their power unless the other states agrees

@@fos1451 It's actually already been done by some states. The solution there is to have "trigger laws," ones which do absolutely nothing, _until_ certain conditions are met, and then they work. So in this case, you pass a law that says "when a certain number of states pass laws that do the same thing, all our EC votes go to the winner of the popular vote." That way, they wouldn't hurt anything until it would actually work. But again, the issue is that you still need to reach that critical mass of states that it would not flip the outcomes, and I don't think we're close to that yet. I think it's unlikely we will be, because the holdouts benefit from the broken system.

​@@timogulstill won't work. Why would smaller States with outsized power under the electoral college agree to surrender that power and subject themselves to what will essentially be a dictatorship?

America needs Rank Choice Voting for all elections yesterday.

From Animal House but seems to also be the case for citizens in Presidential elections

You mean the ones that change their minds frequently are more valuable

@@abdiganiaden nah was just thinking voters of certain states are more valuable than voters of other states

@@johnl.7754 yes but good luck to anyone taking on task to make such monumental constitutional change like that

Trump wouldn't have even won against Hillary if this was the case lol

FACTS!

@@BoosterShotss Also facts that trump told congress to sink the bi partisan border security bill so Biden wouldnt have that win. He doesnt care about anyone. He just wants power

we should be shipping the immigrants to PA cities if we want to make PA red.

@@markthurst9751 Why would that make PA red?

the way its viewed is correct. biden alone loosened up the border through executive actions and undoing trump’s policies

Immigration is a much bigger issue than homeless. We have a homeless rate 1/3 that of Germany.

Because immigration is making homelessness and narcotics addiction worse. The cartels use illegal immigrants as decoys to facilitate drug smuggling. Importing millions of poor people and putting them on perpetual welfare increases cost of living and reduces resources available for citizens. How can you fail to comprehend simple cause & effect??

@@rampage241 Simple answer: A business without customers, goes out of business, cartels and narcotic producers without customers equals 🤔 Out of business, like sears, like Kmart, like Toys R us among a bunch if others, about homeless crisis is because as a nation we are not giving the tools to make our population get wellness, it is about wealth, nothing wrong with that, just we are afraid to offer better life conditions, because we strongly believe it is socialism, right. At the end we as a voters have the tool to fix it, starting with congress, we have a bunch of bad public workers, witch mean they are working for us, we hire them and we do not have to re hire bad employees right, presidents are just clowns, congress has the real power

10 million unvetted people crossing the border the last 4 years, is, in fact, a social problem. 😂

@@rampage241 but I thought they were taking our jobs? how can they be on welfare and taking our jobs? this doesn't add up

@JG-MV that sucks

because your votes literally do not matter. the state is going to be won in the philly suburbs (and pitt suburbs, kinda). specifically, it will be won based on whether biden can scare white suburban women about abortion better than trump scares them about immigrants. but look on the bright side, rural people in most states don't even get to complain about being ignored compared to the rest of their state because their entire state is ignored, even the cities.

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Alabama in between. Mountains don’t vote lol😅

@@emines01 But the hardy mountain folk do. lol

Because respectfully they're not important. Rural always votes red, urban always blue. Suburbs are what matter and suburbs are what the reporter focused on.

@@peeks7165 respectfully all people matter. I am a suburban blue collar worker, but I understand the struggles of those who live out in the boonies. Gas is expensive, and their commute to work is far. Many of them are hard blue collar workers just like myself. Gas prices affect them hard. Many of them are not making bank, just enough to be middle class, but what does that even mean in today's America? You see I respect their work ethic, and their passion. They are being ignored by everyone. I'd say I have a lot in common with them, but sadly its hard to build that bridge when any time I speak I get accused of being a radical leftist. I stand in solidarity with my fellow workers being exploited by a system which treats anyone like a cog in a grinding machine instead of people with families. Many of these start their own business but then find grueling taxes and regulations unfairly eat at their ability to live or even pay their employees fairly. Because our government both local, state, and federal, doesn't really distinguish between a small family owned start up and a mega corporation, except when it does it favors the larger monopolies because we live in a plutocracy. We talk past each other on issues, but class solidarity, our resentment at the fact that our country doesn't invest in us or believe in us but will readily bail out wall st, can unite us as people. I can understand the anger at the government sending aid to Ukraine when people are struggling to pay bills which just keep increasing and the cost of everything is higher now than a few years back. Rural folk commonly attribute this to inflation and Biden because well Fox News said so and the rest of the media is fake and lying. But when you take the time and treat people like people and have a civil conversation you find you can make a lot of connections. I am by what a lot of people call a socialist, but I also work 40+ hours a week with my hands, deal with customers, and am driven by wanting my labor to not be exploited to make some fat cat wealthy while I am doing 90% of the work. I think plenty of hard workers can agree.

And?

Most of these meetings take place during the middle of the workday, so the parties are filled with retirees and people who can't hold down a job or are trust fund babies

@@funtechu interesting

Well old people have the highest turnout by far

Yes, through-out human history, we have put older people with WISDOM in leadership positions because they have EXPERIENCE and KNOWLEDGE that young people do not have. We know put "diverse" people in charge, to the detriment of our cultures.

I think biden’s policies in Palestine will weigh heavy on a crucial voter base in Michigan

your dreaming daytime tRump won't win MI or AZ

Georgia plus Wisconsin plus Nevada doesn't get you there. If you give Trump Arizona but Wisconsin back to Biden you also don't get there

Not true at all Pennsylvania with 19 electoral votes is actually the most crucial between those other states you included. And it’s not just the number of electoral votes that’s a factor, but also how it has been a historically swing than the other state, especially Georgia and Arizona. It just doesn’t make sense how you underestimate a Pennsylvania in that case.

Honestly I doubt he’ll flip Arizona, especially with the abortion decision from the AZ Supreme Court. Could be wrong though .

Cope

Same guy who won in 2020. The PHL metro will make that happen.

@@yvonneplant9434 #separationofchurchandstate 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Easy… Trump

@@brianrodriguez5931Why? He lost in 2020.

@@brianrodriguez5931 why do you want christo fascism?

I would love to read ur book. Is it available at amazon.

No one's advocating for conjoining church and state.

​@@brandonbeggio2273except many Christian nationalists (the vast majority of whom identify as Republicans, largely MAGA republicans)

Bidens ganna take that L

#NOTINTHEUSCONSTITUTION. Also, your post has nothing to do with this video.

No thanks

But it's important to keep in mind that neither of those things is a serious issue right now, since they are both fine.

Mail in voting? What's the problem with mail in voting?

@@magicdolphin8436it’s a problem that needs fixing when they lose. when they win it works fine. it obvious & pathetic.

@@humbaba_7730 Exactly, "The 2020 election was rigged" says Republican elected in 2020

@@magicdolphin8436imo people should vote on Election Day since the chance of some big October turns, like right at the end of the 2016 cycle Clinton lost a bunch of voters. And imagine if COVID hit later and people mail in’d trump before COVID and then they later disagreed with his handling

What subjective moral issue? Killing human beings?

​@@brandonbeggio2273you mean the mother right?

@@ScienceIsHarmony No. I don't. I also don't know of a state where an abortion is not allowed if the life of the mother is threatened.

Murder of an unborn child is not a subjective moral issue. It is just immoral.

Obama did not do that in 08 or 12. It was not an issue in those years. It's only become an issue after Dobbs.

Biden thinks he's a dictator and can codify Roe v Wade and pardon Student Loans. There are THREE heads of government, NOT ONE!

Its almost like they both dealt with republican congresses that wouldn't want that

I hope President Trump picks a VP like Scott, I know whatever his choice is, it’s the right one!

Why not Pence again?

@@spacetoast7783 traitor

@@kenmichel5 In what way is Pence a traitor to the country?

She should be prosecuted!

Females never put down their phones

Because then they're turning in stuff rotation of stuff that they got released on everybody's stuff and they're pulling them out and then regaining strategies from the tax dollars

Issues like what?

Seems like she got it right. Did you type the wrong timestamp?

it's because it's too democratic. America isn't a democratic country it's a federal constitutional republic.

⁠@@blahstedd You can't replace Democracy with Republic, add a bunch of words to it and pretend it's a different thing. America is a democracy and always has been, we just suck at it

@@racool911 That's not true. The Founding Fathers have argued against democracy when founding America. We have a few democratic processes but our government has always been a federal republic and will remain that way.

@@blahstedd They didn't argue against democracy, they argued against who should participate in that democracy, which we realized was a huge mistake and corrected it. Our government has always been a federal republic because a federal republic is literally a democracy. We have always been a representative democracy and will always be one. And if being a "federal republic" stops us from making our elections fair, and makes certain people have a stronger voice than others, then that is a terrible outdated system that we need to uproot for a more modern America.

How do you not understand this by now?

Yeah, they used to be a swing state, but they've gone a little nuts lately.

@@timogul nuts lately?? Florida man has been a thing for a long time lol. After 2020 , Florida moved from purple state to red state. DeSantis won the election in 2018 by 30,000 votes. In 2022 Ron won by a significantly larger margin

Cuban immigration makes Miami Dade turn Red, Democrats no longer can hold Florida.

ohio goes back even farther, 1960. until 2020 of course

@@UserName-ts3sp Yeah, Ohio is also slipping into the red, just as several other states have been slipping blue. I don't think any "swing state" can remain a swing state forever.

4 more years of a terrible economy, world turmoil, and a wide open border!

⁠@@RedPolitics1776on the economy, inflation is down to 3%, unemployment is down to 30 year lows, and gdp is way up, not to mention stock market. On Ukraine and Israel, tell me exactly what trump would do to convince them to stop fighting and hug it out. On the border, tell me how immigrants hurt the nation ( and you can’t say migrant crime because migrants commit violent crime at a far lower rate than natural born citizens, according to FBI numbers.)

That's true enough. Considering Trump a viable option is a sign of insanity.

@@RedPolitics1776 the American economy is the best in the world and growing stronger. What world turmoil? And the border is not wide open. Lol

@@RedPolitics1776 Come to the US! We don't have those problems here!

I sure hope so. Come back and reply so I can see how close you were in Nov

@@Marquipuchi i sure do too, and i will

Trump by 0.5

You cant "out vote" 1am drop boxes being stuffed with trash bags full of "mail in ballots".... I'm sorry, but its all over for the US. No amount of recounts and proving to people machines werent tampered with, can fix the fraud already baked into the sauce prior to those points. Allowing ballot harvesting and watching people ram trash bags of ballots into drop boxes IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT is just obviously suspect....

When you use facts and logic everything looks pro Biden haha

@@alecwest3303like the border? 😂

@@jackgodfrey. If you are referring to the bipartisan border deal that trump told people to sink as to not give biden a win, then yes haha

In my local facebook group I always see people saying: "we just moved here from (insert liberal state) any suggestions for an apartment?"

people move around. it's a tale as old as time. maybe you need to try it.

People move from other places too, it’s not just California and Portland

Democrat policies are why people are fleeing. Stop lying to yourselves.

Oh no, human migration patterns, what will we ever do.

lol no

YESS!! MAGA!!!!

YES ! TRUMP LANDSLIDE 2024

@@TraceMcnamara-sf9zo And after 4 years when Trump is locked out of the WH forever. What then? His kids? So we are a monarchy now? With leadership positions passed down by family?

​@@charlesmiv3842 what's wrong with Trump?

you can vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and we will gladly enter the end of America. It seems watch too much MSNBC or CNN.

Yeah your definitely not a republican it's a party and the party has changed same with the democrat party and based on what your saying you probably economically conservative and that's all

Found the neo-con

Trump's populism and isolationism have really killed the Republican party. They veto their own bills, and now regularly vote against immigration bills, border bills backed by Customs and Border Patrol, and tax cuts for the working man-- not to mention repeated dismissals of the Constitution and verifiably false claims of voter fraud, and the attempts to rig the last election in Trump's favor via the elector plot. Plus, anyone who doesn't rigorously agree with the party line is labeled a RINO and shunned. It's wild how anyone thinks they can function as a government if they get the presidency.

Well, the way I look at it is there were no wars, trying to control borders compared to now. I had oil at $1,51 in 2019. Inflation at 2% compared to 15% now. Women were women and men were men. People knew what a women was. People were changing their children's sex by cutting or chemically castrating boys and girls. Among a lot more of the garbage being spewed. All the people once again saying our democracy is at risk are the same people trying to censor us, trying to take people's guns, arresting pro-life believers while their clinics are being vandalized and or burnt. So what is a better environment? Before or now? I see it as an easy decision. Wish you the best.😊

Or doing her job in a way that emphasizes how hard she works and that the story has equal value no matter the cost.

If PA, Wisconsin and Michigan go to Biden, ax, ga and bc won’t matter

Looking at the recent polling I think it will be the rust belt. Honestly, at this point I wouldn’t be shocked if Trump won Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, Biden is just so unpopular.

@@apresoline3306yes Mn Va Ca Ny they all going for the little Donald! have you taken the Covid vaccine

@@bryceo6369 I don't listen to any polls this far out. The only polls that really matter are the ones taken after Labor Day. Remember - Hillary Clinton was winning in a landslide at this time in 2016. According to polls.

​@@bryceo6369Bidens unpopularity is overestimated, he will win this November for the same reason he won in 2020. That reason being he isn't Trump.

It is conditionally legal in most states, though you can still get in trouble for distracted driving if it leads to an accident.

Why?

I'm black and voting for Trump

​@@user-hl7bw8yw7nBecause Trump doesn't make race an issue and his focus is on the little people. Biden is all about the city elites and rich people's concerns with token handouts to the rest.

Japan will be impacted if the US ditches its international coalitions again.

The religion thing is gross

There is nothing wrong with people voting by mail.

​@@theshimario253 yes, but there is problem with dead people doing that

@@ayyybob there is no proof of that. Republicans have failed to provide evidence for it.

@@ayyybob Well, I guess everyone can at least agree that no dead people cast votes

@@theshimario253most other western democracies outlaw mail in voting

I imagine there are a TON of differences, since they have a very different core system in play.

Indian Parliamentary elections elect multiple people, presidential elections elect just one person

it's also now new york in the northeastern corner of the state. allentown is basically a mini-bronx and the poconos are an enclave of long island.

You forgot to put /s

I love not understanding the causes of inflation

so, you are going to be better with the other candidate?

Bro thinks policy changes made during a term immediately affect the economy💀 The economy is still heavily affected from trump tax cuts and job act back in 2017. Read a book or two

Your delusional😂

1) Colorado is definitely in the blue column and 2) Pennsylvania has more votes

Thus PA goes for Biden - who’s basically a favorite son - pretty comfortably. The Amish don’t vote, Dems are fired up over women’s issues, and many GOP are depressed about Trumps behavior, remarks, and convictions in court. We have a sharp Dem governor who will brook no nonsense in terms of Trump electoral interference. It’s Biden by 4-5%.

Good anaylsis. Thats democracy for ya

Sad that you bought into the false media narrative.

??? What role? On January 4th he called for national guard Nancy pelosi turned it down! WAKE UP, January 6th was a school trip an insurrection is only when people are ARMED!!! Nobody had weapons !!! The riots of BLM & Antifa where 1000% Worst they burned down our cities they destroyed citizens businesses looted & killed people WAKE UP MAN

@@nilnil8411 Idk man, it was pretty clear as day that his supporters attempted to overthrow the election. Looks like you're in denial.

@@charlesmiv3842 Bro, Why you are in everyone comment replies. Try even harder to get that dementia JOE win again Cause' Nothing can stop what's coming, Nothing !! TRUMP 2024!!!!

@@nilnil8411What part of that is false 💀

Why someone would support or vote for someone who wanna violate constitutional and stay forever in power ?

Let's hope not

@@jonasrohdin8856which illegal do u want to live with you

@@RyanRapid Good one 🤣

hey man, maybe go take a civics class before you vote