Who's afraid of the Trump surge?
Panic buttons and 'the enemy within' Pennsylvania.
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TRUMP IN OAKS, PA, about 30 minutes outside of Philly Monday night: “I’m going to bring down your energy costs 50% in the first year, five-O, 50% and I better do it … I’m going to have problems if I don’t get it done.”
HARRIS IN ERIE, PA, two hours north of Pittsburgh, about an hour later, plays video clips of Trump’s threats: “You heard his words coming from him. He’s talking about the enemy within Pennsylvania. He’s talking about the enemy within our country, Pennsylvania.”
In LUZERNE COUNTY, PA — which Trump carried in 2020 — officials have