Meanwhile, Van Gosse of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, is having flashbacks to 2016 and 2020. While Biden won 70 percent of the college town of Lewisburg in the last election, its county, Union, has a “town-versus-country divide,” which one could say of the state as a whole—though that doesn’t mean central Pennsylvania is homogeneous. Canvassing across Union left Gosse with a “deep appreciation for the Democratic base, underneath the party’s layers of consultants, bureaucrats, fundraisers, pundits, and elected officials feeding at the trough of institutional power.” His guess on who wins the state is as good as anyone’s: The most Gosse hopes for is that in his town, “everyone opposed to Trump gets to the polls.” But, he concludes, “no one is backing down.”

Nationwide, Faith Branch writes that Harris is using the “KHive” to make inroads with “the young, online, and restless.” Some younger people, of course, remain suspicious of her—particularly regarding her potential Israel-Palestine policy. But even these young Harris skeptics would probably agree that there is nobody worse than Trump and the GOP, many of whose members, Ben Schwartz writes, can’t stop talking about killing pets.

–Alana Pockros

Engagement Editor, The Nation

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