At the moment, Donald J. Trump casts a long shadow over this once-thriving community, where steel mills, furnaces, bridge works, brickyards, textile plants and boiler shops provided steady jobs for the city’s working and middle classes. …
Pottstown, whose retired and laid-off steelworkers, machinists and tool and die makers have deep roots in the Democratic Party, is just the kind of place where Trump hopes his plan to “Make America Great Again” will resonate and move voters to the Republican column. …
What makes the Trump campaign especially interesting in Pennsylvania is that Trump is going to be a crucial factor in the Toomey-McGinty Senate race. CONT.
Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times