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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. – The gang lined up ready for the assembly of the Bucks County Election Fee earlier this week was indignant. The one factor lacking was the pitchforks.
The hullabaloo was triggered when one of many commissioners, Diane Ellis-Marseglia, introduced the week earlier than that state Supreme Courtroom rulings don’t truly matter, and she or he was going to depend unlawful ballots within the Keystone State’s U.S. Senate race, anyway.
DAVID MARCUS: PENNSYLVANIA VOTERS TO SEN. CASEY: ‘IT’S OVER, BOB’
On Wednesday, she form of apologized to the frothing crowd demanding her resignation, then on Thursday Democratic Sen. Bob Casey conceded his loss to challenger Dave McCormick. For all intents and functions the controversy was over, however why had it occurred within the first place?
“That is all about 2026,” Nick instructed me outdoors the federal government workplaces.
In his late 20s or early 30s, Nick is a kind of Gen Z conservative males you retain listening to a lot about, hair slicked again, sun shades simply so. “Casey isn’t gonna be the senator, however they need these ballots to depend subsequent time,” he mentioned.
A crowd gathers forward of a gathering of the Bucks County Election Fee in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. (David Marcus/Fox Information Digital)
This all speaks to a warranted concern amongst Democrats that Pennsylvania, lengthy the swingingest of the swing states, may very well be shifting, like Ohio and Florida earlier than it, solidly into the Republican column.
Whereas the race between McCormick and Casey was supposedly shut sufficient to advantage a recount, the race atop the ticket between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was not. It wasn’t a blowout, however just like the nationwide tally, at a few two-point lead, Trump’s win was decisive.
Even in Philadelphia, the bluest nook of the commonwealth, Trump improved upon his 2020 vote totals whereas turnout lagged for Harris and the Democrats. That could be a loud warning alarm for what was once the occasion of Jefferson and Jackson.
Swing states don’t have a tendency to remain swing states endlessly. Oregon, for instance, which is now thus far left that Chairman Mao would say, “tone it down a bit,” was a toss-up 30 years in the past, however occasions and events change.
Bob Casey and Dave McCormick are tied in Pennsylvania, in keeping with a brand new ballot. (AP/ Reuters)
For now, Pennsylvania nonetheless has one Democrat senator in John Fetterman, who at occasions appears to chart his personal centrist course towards the leftist headwinds of his nationwide occasion, and Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro, who additionally appears circumspect about abject progressivism.
But when the Democrats nationally fail to spot what Fetterman and Shapiro see, that unchecked wokeness and far-left insurance policies are roundly and soundly rejected by the voters, then even they received’t be capable to maintain Pennsylvania purple.
“If it wasn’t for double requirements, the Democrats would don’t have any requirements in any respect,” one man with a Trump signal shouted outdoors the election commissioner’s assembly on Wednesday, and his level was simply taken.
For 4 years we heard little else about Trump aside from his election denialism, and we have been instructed it was a grave and grievous menace to the nation. But right here was an elected Democratic official promising to interrupt the regulation and depend unlawful ballots, simply to place considered one of her personal in workplace.
Democrats in Pennsylvania face a harmful crossroad trying ahead. Fetterman and Shapiro can proceed to a minimum of gesture in direction of a extra centrist method, but when the nationwide occasion continues its lurch to the far left, it may not matter a lot.
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If in 4 years the Democrats as soon as once more nominate a far-left San Francisco liberal reminiscent of Gavin Newsom, there’s each purpose to consider that Pennsylvanians will proceed their march to the correct.
These have been all the time Joe Biden and Ed Rendell Democrats, they have been by no means Nancy Pelosi Democrats.
For Republicans, the lesson of Pennsylvania couldn’t be easier. Simply keep the course, merely embody what President-elect Trump rightly refers to as frequent sense.
If Republicans can flip Pennsylvania reliably pink, it will likely be a sea change in nationwide politics, the sort that essentially transforms what our political events advocate and stand for.
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That’s actually why Casey tilted on the not possible windmill of a recount. It is not about him, it isn’t about now, it is about subsequent time. It’s about sustaining that wiggle room in poll counting that so usually nudges Democrats throughout the end line.
However this time, the individuals observed, this time they got here out to protest, and subsequent time, they might be poised at hand Republicans the important thing to generational energy.
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