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DAVID MARCUS: In battleground Pennsylvania, exhausted Allentown voters see this candidate surging

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25.10.2024

At a CNN town hall in battleground Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris grouped Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler and Kim Jung-Un. She stumbled on policy questions around immigration and abortion. (Credit CNN)

"The next political ad I see, I swear I’m gonna throw my phone through the TV," Gary told me, as he perused the menu at an Allentown, Pa., restaurant, and anyone who lives here knows exactly what he is talking about.

Living in a swing state is a privilege, but with privilege comes responsibility, as they say, and in this case also a tsunami of TV and radio ads, signs and billboards everywhere, streets closed by motorcades, and yes, even annoying columnists from national outlets poking a pen at you and your thoughts.

It's exhausting. In fact, the owner of the restaurant, a fun place called Blended, was somewhere between laughing and crying as he got a notification that former President Donald Trump would be appearing Tuesday, October 29, at the PPL Center just down the street.

KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE VOTER REGISTRATION DATA SHOWS INFLUENTIAL SHIFTS FAVORING GOP

"Oh, it just shuts everything down," Eric told me. But resigned to the reality of running a business in the epicenter of presidential politics, he just went on with his evening.........

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