BATTLING IT OUT
This may be felt most strongly in Pennsylvania the place the victory path to the White Home runs straight by.
The state has 19 Electoral School votes, probably the most of any battleground state, and has solely picked the shedding candidate twice. It fell to present Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump in 2016 earlier than turning blue for President Joe Biden in 2020 – each occasions by the narrowest of margins.
This 12 months, polls counsel the race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, who’s the Democratic Celebration’s nominee, stays too near name.
Voters will head to the poll field on Nov 5.
Each candidates’ positions on fracking have each attracted and alienated People, with emotions on all sides working deep within the tussle to show the razor-tight state pink or blue.
Trump has slammed Harris for feedback she made throughout her first bid for the US presidency years in the past, when she mentioned there was “no query” that she was “in favour of banning fracking”.
She then made a U-turn in August, swearing off any prior assertion that she opposed the observe.
Through the two candidates’ televised debate final month, Trump repeatedly claimed that she would ban fracking if she turns into president. Harris responded that she wouldn’t impose such a ban.
Her change in stance sits in stark distinction to Trump’s endorsement.
On Wednesday (Oct 9), he delivered speeches in Pennsylvania the place he vowed to unleash American vitality.
“On day one, I’ll inform Pennsylvania vitality employees to frack, frack, frack, and drill, drill, drill, child, drill,” he mentioned.
