Fetterman: 'Hand-to-Hand Combat' Needed for Pa. Votes

Vice President Kamala Harris needs "hand-to-hand combat" to win votes in battleground state Pennsylvania, said Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa.

"There are people that don't understand why anybody would want four more years of [Donald] Trump," Fetterman said Monday on CNN. "But we're not going to argue about it when we're three weeks out; we just have to acknowledge that it's going to be very close and it's going to be hand-to-hand combat for every vote in counties all across Pennsylvania, there's all 67 counties across Pennsylvania.

"And we, as Democrats, we have to jam up those kinds of margin in roughly about 57 of those counties across Pennsylvania that are going to be blue on the map. But we can't allow 80-20, because for one county that goes 80-20, it's likely that there's 57 others that might have those similar kinds of margin and that's why we have to fight for every vote across every county. And that's what I've been doing."

Harris and former President Donald Trump were scheduled to take their fight for Pennsylvania to opposite ends of the state on Monday, with Harris speaking in the northwest corner in Erie and Trump in the southeastern suburbs of Philadelphia.

Democrat Harris and Republican Trump have been making regular appearances in what is the country's largest battleground state; it will be Harris' 10th visit to Pennsylvania this campaign season, while Trump made stops in Scranton and Reading last week.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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