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.