Work­ing class will come home to Har­ris, ral­ly­go­ers in postin­dus­tri­al Penn­syl­va­nia say

Working class will come home to Harris, rallygoers in postindustrial Pennsylvania say

Last week, Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris ral­lied in Luzerne Coun­ty, Penn­syl­va­nia, a key elec­torate giv­en its decades of Demo­c­ra­t­ic promi­nence until the Trump era.Former Pres­i­dent Trump upend­ed the polit­i­cal map in 2016 when he won blue-col­lar, union-heavy coun­ties like Luzerne and neigh­bor­ing Schuylkill, Colum­bia and Northum­ber­land as a Repub­li­can nominee.However, many of those who attend­ed Har­ris’ Wilkes-Barre ral­ly pre­dict­ed that trend was com­ing to an end.Jill Pur­dy, whose near­by home of Northamp­ton Coun­ty flipped red in 2016 but went for Pres­i­dent Biden in 2020, said Har­ris’ strength is explain­ing her plans for fi …