them neville. former president obama just wrapped up a rally with democratic senate candidate john fetterman in pittsburgh. mr. obama will team up with president biden for another rally later this afternoon in philadelphia, and former president trump stumping later as well for senate candidate mehmet oz and gop gubernatorial candidate doug maas try january know. we ll have full cover coverage with lauren wright standing by in philly, bryan llenas on former president trump hitting the trail, but first, rich edson on the democrats rolling out their big guns, and he is live in pittsburgh. hey, rich. reporter: hey, good afternoon, arthel. it is a wealth of former presidents here on the western part of the state. president obama just finished here close to the university of pittsburgh where he s trying to turn i out voters, college students, folks in the area to vote for john fetterman for u.s. senate. also campaigning for the house candidates and the governorship that s also up
help especially at the general election stage. the place where celebrity endorsements can help a lot are attention-grabbing and fundraising at the primary stage. but why i think this is so fascinating is it really shows that the fetterman campaign is extremely worried about this race. they re pulling out all the stops. they want every single advantage they can get. and so sometimes you might get a voice like oprah who maybe gets younger voters to pay attention, maybe people that focus more on entertainment than politics, it comes across their radar, and they re reminded to vote. really this is a tv effort at this stage, not a persuasion effort. aver arkansas i m going to do one quick thing, but reviewing pennsylvania s 20 electoral votes, college votes there, we know that barack obama won pennsylvania in 2012. donald trump was the winner in 2016, joe biden won in 2020. so does this ping-ponging for
2012. these were states that were as close as any other states in the union. in one case, the closest he won and the other case, the closest he lost. he knows how this can be one and loss on the margin. you heard the first lady goes out and speak. she was here in north carolina last week and talking about how 17 votes in individual precinct could have swung the vote one way or another. 17 vote in the precinct and she believes he could have won here when he lost. even though the democratic numbers are up, they know this is a race to the finish and they know these polls are as tight as they can possibly be and they are doing this push. you are going to hear the president, get out and vote, that s the main message here, this is a plastic tv effort because they know in spite of the fact that their voters are getting out to some extend and it is not the number they are
donald trump s strategy is right now. that s to go very very negative on hillary clinton and really appeal to his base. but that s not a winning strategy for him. he has to expand his base. he has to appeal to women. he has to appeal to minority voters. and he s not going to do that in the next 29 days by putting up ads like this. i also think that the clinton campaign has invested enormous amount of resources in their tv effort in all of the battleground states. early voting begins today in many of the states and they are working very hard. and in terms of the enthusiasm for hillary clinton, i think in the last two debates she really sort of closed that enthusiasm gap for her voters. so i think there s no real need for democrats to worry. in terms of tv turnout. i think the strategy for mr. trump, he will lay negative out there he can about hillary clinton. he s not going to try to expand
undecided from voting for romney. that is a win for the president if they stay home. he will need tv effort and plus trying to persuade the undecided not to support romney. and governor, may i just add the states are significant for another reason. we look through the 2008 pris m. in the states that we mentioned. obama carried wisconsin, iowa and new hampshire and ohio, certainly . but two short years later. a republican one state wide seat and in the case of wisconsin twov them and in the case of new hampshire. and so super seeding intervening factor is the 2010 election and model the turn out with a hybrid of 2008 and 10 where the issues are the same as in 2010; you are on to something you copele that with