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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Richard Hall

I reported from across Pennsylvania through the election. The key to Trump’s victory was staring us right in the face

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dances to a song as he leaves a rally at 1st Summit Arena at the Cambria County War Memorial in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on August 30, 2024 - (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

In the college town of Indiana, at the country fair in Bloomsburg, and in the former industrial boomtown of Scranton, the message was the same: working-class Pennsylvanians were struggling to get by.

As I traveled throughout the state during this presidential campaign, from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and the rural stretches in between, inflation and pessimism about the economy were at the forefront of people’s minds.

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