As an independent voter living in a battleground state, Elizabeth Brown has mixed feelings about former President Donald Trump. She’s not crazy about his proposed tariffs, or the tone of his rhetoric. But when he was in office, her salary as a sales manager stretched further – she paid less for her apartment in Bethlehem and could put more meat in her grocery cart.
And she hasn’t been able to discern how Vice President Kamala Harris would be any different from President Joe Biden. Under Mr. Trump, “the economy was good.
We didn’t have this situation on the border,” Ms. Brown says. Next week, she’s leaning toward casting her vote for him.
Although the economy has improved since Ms. Harris became the Democratic nominee, many voters still are not feeling it. Nostalgia for the pre-pandemic Trump economy is palpable in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley.
“Northampton County is probably the best bellwether county in the state,” says Charlie Dent, who represented the Lehigh Valley in Congress from 2005 to 2018. “Whichever [presidential] candidate wins there I believe is going to win Pennsylvania – and the presidency.” As an independent voter living in a battleground state, Elizabeth Brown has mixed feelings about former President Donald Trump.
She’s not crazy about his proposed tariffs, or the tone of his rhetoric, she says. But when he was in office, her salary as a sales manager stretched further – she paid less for her apartment in Bethlehem and could put .
