Residents of President Biden's hometown, including Democratic Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti, sound off to Fox News Digital about the election and top issues from his first term.

SCRANTON, Pa. – Joel was down from Boston with a few of his heavily accented friends and fellow members of the National Association of Government Employees sent by the Kamala Harris campaign to shore up support in Pennsylvania.

Even they know, things are not going well for her.

"I don’t know why she can’t answer questions," Joel told me, in what was about the most blunt assessment against one’s own interest I'd heard in months.

I think a lot of people on all sides are confused by this.

The "Electric City" sign in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Scranton, Pennsylvania has experienced a recent economic turnaround, but the mood among locals about the state of America remains sour. Photographer: Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Getty Images)

As a guy born and raised in Philly who lived for two decades in New York, I felt it my duty to explain, in a good-natured way, to the fellas why I hate Boston. After all, it's a........

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