This weekend, former president Donald Trump made news on two occasions. First, when he went on a tangent talking about the late Arnold Palmer’s penis in the golf legend’s birthplace of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Second, when he tried his hand at making and serving french fries at a McDonald’s. (The McDonald’s trip was meant to be a dig at Vice President Kamala Harris, as he likes to publicly cast aspersions about whether Harris actually worked at McDonald’s at a summer job.)
The slapstick of these photo ops and tangents aside, Trump spending the weekend in Pennsylvania somewhat makes sense, given its swing state nature. A new Washington Post/Schar School poll showed Harris slightly leads Trump in the state. But in 2016, Trump shocked much of the world when he won the presidency largely by flipping formerly “Blue Wall” states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
