Bitter truths: even Biden’s home town broadly rejected Democrats’ message
by Edward Helmore in Scranton, Pennsylvania from US news | The Guardian on (#6S3YH)
Harris won Biden's home county in Pennsylvania by less than 1%, a steep drop from Biden's and Obama's wins
From gold-high top sneakers to Women-for-Trump tank tops, iron-on Fight, Fight, Fight" patches to a poster depicting a 19th-century cowboy outlaw, sales of Trump merchandise at the Trump store in Scranton, Pennsylvania, tripled in sales in the days after the once and future president's landslide second-term win in the US election last week.
In a hard week for Democrats, the goods flying off the shelves added insult to injury as Scranton has long been intimately linked to Joe Biden, lauded as his home town and symbol of his affinity with America's working class.
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