{"id":76584,"date":"2024-09-30T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a635e44f8e999a57cf63c8ccc2526b3f"},"modified":"2024-09-30T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:00:10","slug":"bidens-old-backyard-now-a-key-pennsylvania-battleground-filled-with-purple-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/bidens-old-backyard-now-a-key-pennsylvania-battleground-filled-with-purple-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden’s old backyard now a key Pennsylvania battleground filled with ‘purple’ votes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
SCRANTON, Pa.\u2014 <\/strong>While northeastern Pennsylvania\u2019s Lackawanna County<\/span> has been a Democratic stronghold in state and federal elections, voters on the streets of the old coal mining region say the area runs “purple” and will likely be a nail-bitter of an election.<\/p>\n “It’s not as blue as people think. It’s more purple underneath because people are afraid to say anything around here because they think that there’s going to be retaliation. That’s an old thing that goes back generations around here,” David Kveragas told Fox News Digital from a pizza shop on the main drag of Scranton as a storm sloshed rain across the Wyoming Valley last week. <\/p>\n Lackawanna County is home to cities and towns such as Scranton, Carbondale and Throop, mixing cityscapes backdropped by factories of a bygone era, and dotted with suburbs and expansive farms. The county has long voted blue in state and national elections, last throwing its support behind a Republican in 1984 during President Ronald Reagan\u2019s blowout election when he won each state except Washington, D.C., and Minnesota \u2014 the home state of Reagan\u2019s competitor that year, Walter Mondale.<\/p>\n The county has trended right in recent elections, however, teeing up a heightened election battle that will likely help determine how the key battleground state will swing come Nov. 5.<\/p>\n ECONOMY, BORDER, ABORTION DIVIDE BIDEN\u2019S HOMETOWN AS SCRANTON LOOKS BACK ON NATIVE SON\u2019S FIRST TERM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n