'Blue Wall Politics': Inside the Key Heartland Battlegrounds Deciding the US election

The U.S. Presidential contest between the Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance tickets is high-stakes for the entire world. Given the political quirks of the U.S. Electoral College voting system, only seven of the U.S.'s 50 states are considered up for grabs. And within those seven the three industrial heartland states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are pivotal. Donald Trump won these three once-reliable Democratic "Blue Wall" states in 2016 by a collective total of 80,000 votes, enabling his unlikely and transatlantic alliance upending ascent to the White House. In 2020 Joe Biden narrowly won them back and evicted Trump from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

What is going to happen in 2024? You are invited to join in a transatlantic virtual discussion of with key Blue Wall State-based political analysts hosted by the Jefferson Education Society, the Erie, Pennsylvania, as part of the Heartlands Transformation Network.

The event will feature real-time insights into the political dynamics unfolding in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania from award-winning journalists.

The Heartlands Transformation Network is a transatlantic collaborative partnership dedicated towards closing geographic economic divides and reconnecting residents of rural and former industrial heartland communities to economic opportunity. The initiative works to return community pride and optimism about the future, and diminish the appeal of polarizing, resentment-driven,