Democratic rep says 2024 election is going to be 'very close' 9/14/2024

it's probably a good thing they called the Keystone State because Pennsylvania is key to winning the presidency uh and getting those electoral votes that could put either candidate over 270 meline Dean is the Pennsylvania Democratic Congress one kind enough to join us right now Congressman um obviously both candidates spent an enormous amount of time in your beautiful state and and yet the polls remain tight as a tick uh how would you describe that and why that's happening after all of this I mean we're we're kind of dead even well H and thanks for having me on Neil I'm sitting here in Montgomery County at at a coordinated headquarters for this election cycle the enthusiasm is high uh the number of new people coming in to volunteer is extraordinary the number of young people and I will say particularly young women who are engaged in this election because they have seen what has happen to their freedoms is high I don't explain the polls uh I just say this is going to be very close election if you take a look at Pennsylvania's voter registration we have about a little under 4 million registered Democrats about three and a half million registered Republicans so we're quite purple uh and then there are several hundred, Independents uh so this is going to remain close uh you saw what happened in the last two elections uh Mr Trump won Pennsylvania by only 44,000 votes across the entire Commonwealth in 2016 Mr Biden won it here with with 880,000 votes my prediction is while this remains close in these next 51 days we want to prove that we will be the Keystone State again and I bet Montgomery County will be the key to that Keystone uh where we will show a margin greater than even Mr Biden if kamla Harris hadn't emerged as the Democratic nominee and the party had stuck with Joe Biden had he maybe push that debate he wanted with Donald Trump into the fall rather than the summer it would be very different right now wouldn't it those polls be very different uh I don't know to be honest I do know that I am so proud of our president uh for making that courageous and selfless Choice uh and that's what is so Stark about these two campaigns whether it was was courageous as much as he was kind of pushed he didn't jump right well actually no I think he was very thoughtful about it I spoke with the White House I spoke with the campaign in the days leading up to his decision he was extremely thoughtful about it but how selfless it was to say I can't risk this we cannot risk another Trump presidency you're a business guy and I admire you I love that interview you just did with Steve um take a look at what Mr Trump is promising he's promising tariffs and he's promising Mass deportation of workers that will be incredibly the Biden Administration has just spread more tariffs against Chinese Goods not you're quite right not nearly to the degree that Donald Trump wants to put push them but everyone seems to be in tariffs they're very popular right now to sort of go after in this case China are we doubling down on something that could come back to hit us in the heiny well I don't know that's a good way of putting it uh I don't know about that but I do know that that's an economic term just so you know congresswoman but go ahead okay I um I was an English major but I do care about the economy and I love what has happened under Biden Harris with our economy take a look at where inflation is we are the Envy of the G7 we're at 2.5% and and cooling even more take a look at what the FED will likely do in the coming days uh interest rates will be coming down that means costs will be coming down if somehow Mr Trump were reelected and did mass deportations of workers uh that will be incredibly inflationary costs will go up and interest rates will go up fortunately I don't believe that will happen and I believe Pennsylvania will make the difference so so let me real quickly just put a cap on this u in inflation you're right has come down mightily from where it was but it is still up from when Joe Biden first came into office there are a lot of reasons and variations for that but but what Republicans are pounding is that it it is still expensive when you go to the grocery store uh and it is still a hassle and that kamla Harris's message is more or less the saying well what you just emphasize Congress which is all valid that the trend is the friend but the the record from from when the Trump Administration ended and the Biden began uh that that's still a problem that inflation jump since then is still a huge problem absolutely there are multiple factors uh that you know are are impacting that but I want to go back and say what did we do in the last Congress in the 117th Congress in order to bring folks prices down uh we passed many many bills and you see us now with a republican majority that we're not passing anything we don't even have a budget so we have brought uh prices down we've brought the prices of prescription drugs down uh the the things that we have done Democrats in the majority and when we go back into the majority will continue to put pressure on prices okay congresswoman great so you're not too bad by the way for an English major big fancy congresswoman now and all of that very good from you Neil yeah if only right good luck on that uh very good seeing a congresswoman we'll be following very closely what's happening your state and all these other Battleground States it's amazing all seven are kind of within the margin of era I don't believe we've seen that uh at least in recent uh campaign history