The Republican candidate in the most-watched race in the country spent the Friday before the election with a handful of out-of-state volunteers here in a drab office building.
Rick Saccone’s campaign billed it as a get-out-the-vote rally, but the lackluster event showed why some national Republicans are already preparing to pin the blame on their candidate if Saccone loses the special House election on Tuesday that is being viewed as a bellwether for November’s midterms. …
Trump has rightly called the 18th Congressional District “Trump Country,” and if there’s anywhere he can help move the needle for Republicans, it should be in this industrial corner of western Pennsylvania, where the president’s message about restoring the working class helped him win the district in a landslide in 2016 over Hillary Clinton. CONT.
Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC