Elections

Post-debate poll: Trump leads Biden by three points in Pennsylvania

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3 years ago

October 26, 2020

According to a new post-debate poll released by the conservative organization American Greatness, incumbent President Donald Trump has a three-point lead over former Vice President Joe Biden in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

The study’s results found that Trump gained a three-point lead over Biden after Thursday night’s final presidential debate, with Trump and Biden at 48.4% and 45.5% respectively with a stated margin of error of plus or minus 4.9%. Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president, got 3%. 3% of respondents said they were undecided.

The poll, conducted the night of October 25, surveyed 400 likely Pennsylvania voters via IVR and live cell phone interviews.

A previous poll that AG conducted between October 12 and 13 gave Biden a three-point lead in Pennsylvania but showed that lead narrowing.

For why they believe this change occurred, InsiderAdvantage’s Matt Towery offered some of his own analysis, however, he did not cite any sources to back up his claims.

“Since the debate Trump has picked up support from younger voters, who based on our prior survey strongly oppose future lockdowns over Covid-19 spikes,” Towery said.

Other demographic groups that Towery claimed were pivotal for Trump in this latest data shift were male voters, senior voters, and African Americans, whom Trump has been gaining further traction with.

Another reason that Towery points to is Biden’s recent statements regarding fracking.

“It would be nothing more than mere conjecture to attempt to correlate Biden’s statements on energy and fracking in the last debate contest with the shift towards Trump in this survey,” he wrote.

It’s important to note that fracking is an important issue for many Pennsylvanians, especially those in the western part of the state where both campaigns have been particularly directing their efforts. Trump has been a vocal advocate for fracking, while Biden has been broadly opposed to it, though Biden has not been consistent in specific views on the issue.

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Elections

Trump, Rep Biggs: invoking the Alien Enemies Act to enable widespread deportation will ‘be necessary’

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2 hours ago

September 22, 2023

Sara Carter Staff

At a recent rally in Iowa, former President Donald Trump promised that if elected again in 2024, he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act to enable widespread deportation of migrants who have illegally entered the United States. Since President Joe Biden took office in January of 2021, over 6 million people have illegally entered the country.

Republican Representative Andy Biggs from border state Arizona, which is among the states suffering the greatest consequences from the Biden administration policies, lamented that Trump’s suggestion will be “necessary.”

Speaking on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show, Biggs stated “[I]t’s actually gonna have to be necessary.” Biggs then added his thoughts on how many more people will continue to cross the border under Biden: “Because by the time Trump gets back in office, you will have had over 10 million, in my opinion, over 10 million illegal aliens cross our border and come into the country, under the Biden regime.”

“And so when you start deporting people, and removing them from this country, what that does is that disincentivizes the tens of thousands of people who are coming,” Biggs went on. “And by the way, everyday down in Darién Gap, which is in Panama… over 5,000 people a day. [I] talk[ed] to one of my sources from the gap today. And I will just tell you, those people that you’ve seen come come in to Eagle Pass, over 7,000 in a three day period, most of those two weeks ago, were down crossing into the Darién Gap.”

“And those people… make their way up and they end up in the Eagle Pass [Texas], Del Rio area,” he continued. “So if you want to disincentivize them, you remove them from the country, which is why they remain in Mexico policy was so doggone effective at slowing down illegal border crossings.”