At an event in Smithton, Pennsylvani this week, former President Donald Trump said that if he doesn’t become president, energy jobs in the state will go down big time.
In addition to former Acting Director of National Sec. Ric Grenell, Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick, former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), and many Pennsylvania farmers, Trump led a roundtable discussion.
Former President Obama talked to one farmer named Nick Staffieri. He and his wife both work in the energy industry and depend on their wages to help support his in-laws’ farm, which has been around for at least 70 years.
“Both my wife and I work in energy. Because of the change in energy policy in Pennsylvania, our ability to put our money back into the farm has been great,” he said.
“We would not have been able to improve our farm and our lives without that energy job. It wouldn’t be possible for me to have the chances I do without my business and my work family, especially today,” Staffieri said.
Staffieri also said that how much money he and his wife make “depends on pro-American energy policy,” which means letting “operators produce abundant and clean natural gas from under our feet.”
Trump made it clear that if Kamala Harris, the vice president, wins the election for president, energy jobs in the state will shut down.
“Thank you very much, Nick. That’s great. He said, A good job in energy, like yours, won’t be here without Trump. There won’t be any energy jobs here without Trump.”
“You know they won’t let you frack. In all her life, she has never said “frack” except for a short time ago, when she saw that her poll numbers were dropping in Pennsylvania.”
Trump said that polls from Pennsylvania show that people in the Keystone State are well aware of Harris’s extreme views on fracking before she changed her mind about it and many other issues.
“But when you take away that energy and income, Pennsylvania has a whole different story, and we’re not going to let that happen,” Trump said. “We need to win the race.”
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