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In Pennsylvania, the Ice Beneath Donald Trump Is Cracking

In Pennsylvania, the Ice Beneath Donald Trump Is Cracking
Then Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) addresses supporters for his Senate bid, in Hazleton, Pa., on May 15, 2018. Mark Makela/Getty Images
Salena Zito
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PITTSBURGH—In 2016, then-Reps. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) and Tom Marino (R-Pa.) became the first sitting members of Congress to endorse then-candidate Donald Trump for president. Their colleagues in Washington gave them the side-eye. Barletta told me at the time that when that didn’t work, their colleagues tried to talk them out of it.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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