Pennsylvania Dems Know Trump Sucks Up All the Media Oxygen, So They Went All in on Face-to-Face Contacts

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Signs supporting Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, stand posted outside a home in Pittsburgh, Pa., October 29, 2024.

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Erie, Pa. – Here in one of Pennsylvania’s swingiest counties late last month, Erie Democratic Party chairman Sam Talarico didn’t hesitate to acknowledge that it’s hard for his party to compete with Donald Trump on the airwaves.

“He just tends to suck up all the oxygen in the room,” the tall, mustachioed former high-school science teacher and local union president told National Review during a sit-down interview here in his party headquarters last week.

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Audrey Fahlberg was a politics reporter for National Review.

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