The Field: The Battle for Pennsylvania’s White Working Class

[0] So can I ask you, you're a Democrat.

[1] So how common is it for Democrats to vote for Republicans here?

[2] I think I told you on the phone.

[3] I'm going to give you an example.

[4] When the election came around when Trump was running, I'm working the polls that day as a Democrat.

[5] And usually in Hazel Township, because the population is so small, election day, it's 8 o 'clock in the morning.

[6] You're going to get drips and drabs.

[7] Two hours later, there's nothing.

[8] Lunchtime, people are coming on their lunch hours, then four o 'clock you'll get the rush.

[9] That day, those people were lined up to the highway.

[10] I was like, are you kidding me?

[11] Like, what are these people doing here today?

[12] People just came out to vote for Donald Trump that day.

[13] That's what they were there for.

[14] From the New York Times, this is the field.

[15] I'm Shane Goldmacher in Pennsylvania.

[16] So a few weeks ago, I went with my colleagues, Andy Mills, and Elise Beagle to Lezern County, one of the most important counties and one of the most important swing states.

[17] Welcome to Nanny Coke.

[18] We didn't know how to pronounce it.

[19] Say it again.

[20] Nanny Coke.

[21] Nanny Coke.

[22] Poll showed no sign that Donald Trump is making inroads in the cities and suburbs.

[23] So in order to win Pennsylvania, in the White House again, Donald Trump not only has to keep the white working class voters he got in Luzerne and places like it in 2016.

[24] This time, he's going to have to win even more.

[25] Could you just introduce it?

[26] yourself, your name, your title.

[27] So we went there specifically to talk to a local state senator.

[28] State Senator John Ud .each.

[29] John UD.

[30] So that's how you say your name, UD