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Trump’s Pennsylvania Ground Game Is MIA. Harris’ Operation Is a Juggernaut. Will It Matter?

Kamala Harris’ get-out-the-vote operation in Pennsylvania is a well-oiled machine. Trump’s operation is exhibiting many of the same problems as 2020. The race is still tied, and Republicans still think they’re going to win.

Trump in Allentown, PA
Former President Donald Trump speaks for a campaign rally at PPL Center in Allentown, PA. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

READING, PA — Rob Gleason thinks he knows why former President Donald Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016, the only Republican presidential candidate to do so in the last 36 years.

“In ’15, when I first met him, he said, ‘Well, how do I win Pennsylvania?’ I said, ‘You have to go there a lot,’” Gleason told NOTUS on Monday.

The former chairman of the Pennsylvania GOP had been in charge of the state party for a decade, building up an operation that could meet the moment when the right candidate came around. He found it in Trump.