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Governor Tom Wolf on Divided Pennsylvania
With all eyes on Pennsylvania this Election Day, Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania (D), checks in with us and talks about his divided state and Bruce Springsteen's performance during a Hillary Clinton campaign event last night. Clinton must win in the state to take the country, where polls will close at 8 PM tonight.
According to FiveThirtyEight, polls suggest that she will and Democrats will also need to win the Senate race between Democrat Katie McGinty and Republican Senator Pat Toomey in order to have a shot at taking control of the Senate.