Erie is my hometown as well. I moved from there when I was 23 to go to school in Birmingham. Retired now. Never wanted to go back there to live. Erie was an industrial town when I was growing up, with a strong presence of unions. Weren’t very many Republicans that I knew of. After I moved I put my support in the Rep Party. Voted republican since. That being said, my whole family there still are staunch dims. I stay away from political discussions with them. Not going to change their mind. However, they have never given me any grief for being Repub. If the President draws a huge crowd in Erie, I can only surmise that the polls that say that the president is down 10 points are pure BS. It would also tell me that a lot of dems there are crossing over to vote for the president. This is not a scientific poll, rather JMHO
No way Trump is down by 10 in PA. Given voter registration changes, Trump will increase his popular vote in PA. Also every time Trump has a rally in PA there are significant percentage of non-Republicans and people that didn’t vote in 2016 attending the rally. I’ll post Erie’s stats when the come out from the GOP Chair if someone doesn’t beat me to it.