Top Democrats confident 'blue wall' in Midwest will save Biden
Source: The Hill
04/08/24 6:00 AM ET
Top Democrats acknowledge that President Biden won’t win this year by the same Electoral College landslide he won by in 2020, conceding that winning in Arizona and Georgia will be tough given Biden’s low approval rating. But Democrats are counting on what’s called the “blue wall” in the Midwest: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where Biden has seen an uptick in polling numbers and where his effort to rebuild domestic manufacturing is most likely to pay off.
Democrats say their top issue — abortion rights — also resonates especially strongly in those three states, adding to what they see as Biden’s advantage there.
“It was critical in 2020, it was critical in ’16,” Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) said of the Democrats’ blue wall in the upper Midwest. Stabenow said Biden’s focus on “onshoring” or bringing back American manufacturing jobs will be a top selling point of his reelection campaign in her home state.
“The CEO of U.S. Steel has called in a manufacturing renaissance. We’re bringing jobs back. Basically, the Biden administration is doing everything that others including Donald Trump have talked about but were never really serious about doing,” she said. “President Biden is aiming right at the middle class: Particularly, bringing jobs home. Rebuild America. You tackle costs, you take on the drug companies. Made in America,” she added.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4577632-democrats-blue-wall-biden/
As a note, Pennsylvania is NOT "Midwest" (we're 50 miles from the Atlantic Ocean here in Philly).
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You easterners - Philly / Bucks / Allentowners - you're a different breed in the other end of the state.
We had a blast! The people in the area were really friendly. We got one of the campsites where we pitched tents and cooked over a fire pit (the place also had RVs/campers and cabins). Had to dig deep for my old Girl Scout training from decades before. 
On the way there we saw some Amish horse and buggies in a mall parking lot. lol
This was the place - in Gardners, PA (looks like they really expanded it since I was there) - https://mountaincreekcamping.com/
It starts to transition over there. Have been to Pittsburgh a bunch of times as well as OH (a BIL and his family are from Dayton and he still has siblings there).
An "artificial" border between PA and NJ is the only thing that "psychologically" keeps us from being called "coastal".
We don't want a repeat of 2016. And 2020 was too close for comfort. Every vote matters.
PA is microcosm of America since Western PA is like Ohio or West Virginia. Philly is very much an east coast city. That's my home state where I grew up. There are many reasons why I peaced out as soon as I turned 18 
