That concept, which is widely considered, has regulated daily campaign visits. Biden has stumped more than any other state in every media market, from an old steel city in the southwest to the big, bustling, colorful city of Philadelphia in central Pennsylvania. Trump banged across the state this week, attacking three campaign events over 200 miles in a single day from the Eagles to the Steelers nation. Both candidates will return to the state on weekends and Mondays.

Here is a Pennsylvania view of the locations where Trump and Biden campaigned – and those cities and towns are crucial in determining who wins the state’s 20 election votes.

Eri

Democrat Lieutenant Cow John Fetterman repeats words like a mantra: “Tell me who won the fire, I tell you who won Pennsylvania.”

The lesser-known county may be the state’s biggest clock: in 2016, it went by only 2 percentage points to Trump.

Located in the northwest corner of the state, Eri is an mostly white, blue collar area that was once a democratic stronghold with a proud working tradition. Four years ago, it was overthrown by Trump after twice supporting President Barack Obama. But, by the middle of 2018, it had come a major way for Democrats, supporting the party’s Cubernatorial and Senate candidates by double digits.

The former vice president traveled there in October after state-elected officials visited Biden’s campaign for several months. At a plumbers union training center, he leaned into class war rhetoric: “If every investment banker in New York goes on strike, nothing big will change in the United States. But if every plumber decides to stop working, every electrician, the country will be shut down. ”

Trump made a swing after the district, jokingly making headlines, and he was very confident in his position, “Before Blake came, I did it – I did not come to the fire.”

The county is actively competing with both campaigns this year. Jim Werts, the leader of the Eri Democrats, took the task very seriously and appointed a field director in July. He canceled voters when the Biden group abandoned the practice of knocking on doors in the summer due to the corona virus.

“Voter turnout, postal ballots, if I’m going to judge this only face to face, I’m very confident right now,” he said of the state of the race here. “But there are a lot of studies on the postal ballot process, and there is a lot of ignorance about what election day elections will look like, and that’s what bothers me. I think that’s what tightens the race.”

GOP spokesman Mike Kelly said in a recent call with reporters who feel “strong” about Trump’s position, which includes its county of Eri County and nearby conservative areas. But Kelly inadvertently issued a warning sign to Trump in Erie: the president is said to be winning his congressional district by about 10 percent in the by-elections, compared to 20 points in 2016.

Northeast Pennsylvania

The Northeastern Pennsylvania districts of Lucerne and Lacavana are the next home neighbors, which in 2016 did a lot to provide the state with Trump.

The president captured Lucerne, a declining historic coal region, by a margin of 26,000 votes – 60 percent on the brink of statewide victory. When Hillary Clinton defeated Lakkavanna, she received less than 4,000 votes, up from nearly 27,000 by Obama in 2012.

Lakkavanna, the smallest of the two districts, is the homeland of Python’s native Scrandon and the key to his middle – class political identity. So it’s no surprise that both Trump and Biden have made the region a priority, with candidates making a total of five visits here this year.

When Biden announced a major plan for his economic recovery, he chose to do so from a metalworking plant in Dunmore, Lucknow. Trump traveled to Skronden to a Fox News Town Hall in March. He also injected Biden with a 15-minute voyage to Old Forge From Scranton during the Democratic National Convention. And Trump is going to Lucerne for a rally before the election.

“If Biden is elected, all security will soon disappear, and border control will be handed over to violent cartels and the left-wing extremists who empower them,” he said at the old Forge rally, returning to the anti-immigration rhetoric he leaned on in 2016, which is popular in the region.

Northeast Pennsylvania is also one of the places where Trump is mining more votes than he won in 2016. Four years ago, a Republican National Committee said it had spent $ 350 million to restructure its national data program and find pro-Trump voters.

A recent Muhlenberg College / Morning Call poll found that Trump was performing better than the rest of the state in the Northeast, where Biden led 55-39.

“The vote on election day will be in favor of Donald Trump, and it will come out higher than in 2016,” said Lucerne County Republican leader Justin Behrens.

Meanwhile, Biden’s team is often trying to minimize its losses in Lucerne and perform better in Lagawanna than Clinton, using part of its hometown appeal.

“I think Joe Biden is doing better in this area,” said Republican Matt Cartwright. “People know him, they know who he is: he cares about people.”

Philadelphia and its suburbs

Biden will no doubt wipe out Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs. By the question of how much.