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Pennsylvania is always an important swing state in elections,
and the Lehigh Valley is a part of the state both Republicans
and Democrats are fighting to win, mainly because it's one of the only real toss-up districts left.
Today on the pod, let's head there and let's see what's going on.
It's the NPR Politics Podcast.
I'm Ashley Lopez.
I cover politics.
I'm Barbara Sprint.
I cover Congress.
I'm Stephen Fowler.
I cover politics.
Barbara, you recently traveled to a part of Pennsylvania that I love.
It's known as the Latino Corridor, the Latino Belt, whatever you want to call it.
For folks not familiar, can you tell us about what this part of Pennsylvania is like?
Yeah.
So I was primarily in Allentown, Bethlehem area, really interesting cities.