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The Democratic and Republican leaders find themselves on the same battlefield on Saturday as they make closing arguments in Pennsylvania for next week’s midterm elections, despite having been shadowboxing at separate campaign sites throughout the country for weeks. Alongside his former boss Barack Obama, President Joe Biden will participate in a rally as the Democrats bring out the big guns in an effort to ignite a national movement that will turn the tide of the late rightward surge in the polls.
Additionally, Biden’s predecessor and ferocious political foe Donald Trump is also visiting the midwestern state in a split-screen preview of a potential rematch of the 2020 presidential election.
Six years after leaving the White House, Obama—still the party’s most bankable star—begins the day in Pittsburgh with Democratic candidate John Fetterman, who is locked in a contest for the Senate against Republican TV doctor Mehmet Oz.
The 44th and 46th presidents will court suburban voters in Philadelphia, the nation’s historic birthplace of independence, in order to build a vital foundation of Democratic support. Biden and Obama will then make an appearance there.
In 2016, the Keystone State supported Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton for president, but in 2020, they preferred Joe Biden.
The majority in the upper chamber of Congress will be held by the party that succeeds retiring Republican Pat Toomey, according to strategists from both parties.
Ten days ago, Fetterman and Oz sparred for an hour in the state capital Harrisburg. Fetterman was still having communication problems after a stroke in May that had disrupted his campaign.
Making noise
Trump, the one-term 45th president who hopes to become the 47th, will try to solidify support in an area that gave him large margins of victory in 2016 and 2020 in Latrobe, which is a few miles east of Pittsburgh.
The state of Pennsylvania is considered as a must-win not only for control of the Senate but also for the balance of power among the nation’s 50 state governors, powerful figures who have a say in the majority of voter’s lives, from voting rights to education and health care.
