This is their "lose by less" strategy and she is going right into the heart of trumpie country to do it. trumpie has visited Johnstown so many times that he's a resident by now. Biden, to my recollection, never did. HRC to my recollection did not. Hillary went to Pittsburgh, Biden went to Scranton of course many times but that was his birthplace and that's in the northeast of the commonwealth. It's not properly considered Pennsyltucky, the sobriquet reserved for Western Pennsylvania. The trans-Allegheny is a distinct region. I know exactly where she is going to speak, the only place of any size in Johnstown, what was named after World War II the War Memorial, capacity 4,000. Been in the War Memorial dozens of times.
Johnstown used to be a heavily Democratic city because of the presence of the steel mills, of Eastern European immigrants, and the unions. Now there are no steel mills and hardly any people. Johnstown's population peaked in the 1920 census, 67,000. That was BIG for America then! The population declined in every census thereafter. Know what the pop is now? 18,411.
The area is in pain. They have been abandoned and they feel abandoned. By going to Johnstown Kamala is saying, "You have not been abandoned. You matter." That goes some way with people. She will never, ever, ever win Cambria County, I doubt she'll win Johnstown, but she will certainly lose Johnstown by less by just showing up. That will take a small load off Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and their suburbs to shoulder the entire Commonwealth.
