Part of Harris's Pennsylvania strategy: Lose red counties by less

The stops align with the Harris campaign’s strategy to win Pennsylvania in part by running a little stronger in rural Republican strongholds than Biden in 2020 — a message that Fetterman echoed at a Somerset County Democratic Party fundraising dinner.

“It’s not about the color on the map,” Fetterman told more than 120 Democrats gathered in a century-old red barn on a Saturday evening a few miles from the field where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. “It’s about the margins in these counties.”

Harris’s strategy for cutting into Trump’s margins is built around out-organizing his campaign.

The Harris campaign says it has 50 offices across Pennsylvania, including 16 in counties that Trump won by double-digits in 2020. Hillary Clinton’s campaign did not open an office in Lancaster County — which Trump won by double digits in 2016 and 2020 — until October 2016, said Brendan McPhillips, who managed Fetterman’s 2022 campaign and is now a senior adviser to Harris’s campaign in Pennsylvania. The Biden campaign opened one in March this year.



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