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Bob Casey Jr.: “The only way Donald Trump wins [Pennsylvania] this time is…”

Featuring: Bob Casey Jr., Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

Published June 18, 2023 | Video Starts at 23:36

Well, it's my view, this is just my view and we'll see if I'm right about this. It's my view that The only way Donald Trump wins [Pennsylvania] this time is by stealing it. And we know that he'll try. There's no law, no convention that he won't break. So they're going to try. (23:36–23:43)

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Asserts that Donald Trump can only win Pennsylvania through fraudulent means.

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“Joe Biden is in an environment where people want change for lots of reasons.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 13:34-13:42
“The President's failure on the virus [is a reason people want change].”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 13:41-13:44
“Joe Biden is a changed candidate because he's running against an incumbent in a change environment.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 13:53-13:58
“Hillary Clinton won the Philadelphia media market by 25, Obama won it by 26.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 16:23-16:28
“The three [counties] that went from voting for Obama to voting for Trump were Luzerne, Erie and Northampton.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 18:28-18:35
“If you add up the margins that Trump won just those three counties by, it was more than 33,000 in a state that he won by 44.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 19:10-19:18
“Joe Biden is going to win Erie county for sure.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 19:23-19:28
“Joe Biden will win Northampton.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 19:34-19:37
“Luzerne county in northeastern Pennsylvania is... hard for Joe Biden to win it, but he's not going to lose it by 26,000 votes.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 19:42-19:56
“I got a higher percentage of the vote in Philadelphia than Barack Obama got [in 2018].”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 20:49-21:00
“Joe Biden will win the Philadelphia television market by more than Hillary Clinton did or Barack Obama.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 21:16-21:23
“The white voters in Pennsylvania that don't have a college degree... might amount to almost half of our electorate.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 21:33-21:41
“We're not going to lose [white voters in Pennsylvania without a college degree] by 32 points.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 21:41-21:45
“Joe Biden's... economic plan and his approach to the virus is helping to cut some of those margins in rural areas.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 22:48-23:02
“Joe Biden's going to win [Allegheny] county big and they're going to have a mail in ballot result early.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 24:18-24:45
“Philadelphia is 12% of the vote and the suburban counties are 22% of the vote.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 27:59-28:05
“Philadelphia is only at best 12% of the statewide vote.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 28:00-28:05
“Hillary Clinton had 30% of the vote [in Johnstown] in 2016. Barack Obama had 40% of the vote four years earlier.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 28:33-28:44
“We're not hearing great things about parts of Pennsylvania where the mail has been really slowed down.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 30:10-30:16
“In the Senate, state senate, we need five seats in the house, we need at least nine.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 30:54-30:57
“A lot of House districts where Trump was plus five last time is minus two this time or minus three.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 31:08-31:16
“Joe Biden's performance helps with [Democrats making significant gains in the state legislature].”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 31:43-31:46
“Joe Biden's campaign did a good job of pushing back about the vice president's position, which is I'm not going to ban [fracking] in…”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 34:13-34:13
“There's no question [gas extraction] has been a job benefit to the state.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 35:15-35:18
“The state also has a very strong commitment, as we've had over the last 50 to 75 years of environmental protection.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 35:18-35:29
“After letting coal companies do what they wanted for the previous hundred years.”
57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey | Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt | Uploaded June 18, 2023 | 35:28-35:33