Hi, I'm David Pluff and I'm thrilled to be back with another season of Campaign HQ.

This season we're going to go from now to the election, which is looming just a couple

of months from now.

We're going to go deep into the key states that have Senate races, governors races, Secretary

of States races, U.S. House races.

So each episode we're just going to go deep into one state and talk to experts from that

state, political journalists who are covering these races carefully, campaign managers and

other operatives who are leading these campaigns.

And I'm excited that our first state is going to be the great state of Pennsylvania, always

an important battleground state and is kind of ground zero this year as we look at battles

for the Senate, key governors race, as well as key house races.

There's an open seat Senate race, Pat Tumey's retiring, open seat, governors race, governor

wolf is retiring and we have a key house races and in Pennsylvania, there is no elected

secretary of state.

It's appointed by the governor of Pennsylvania.

So essentially the governor of Pennsylvania becomes the chief election administrator and

the gubernatorial candidate on the Republican side, Tuck Maustriano led the election denial

efforts for Trump.

So this is important, not just in Pennsylvania, but what it could mean for the country.

So we're going to talk to three guests today, helping us learn more about the Pennsylvania

election.

We're going to start with Julia Taruso, political reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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