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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. – The group lined up ready for the meeting of the Bucks County Election Commission earlier this week was offended. The one factor lacking was the pitchforks.
The hullabaloo was induced when one of many commissioners, Diane Ellis-Marseglia, introduced the week earlier than that state Supreme Court docket rulings don’t really matter, and she or he was going to rely 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 kind 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 advised me exterior the federal government places of work.
In his late 20s or early 30s, Nick is a type 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 rely 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 worry amongst Democrats that Pennsylvania, lengthy the swingingest of the swing states, might 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 benefit 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 may be a loud warning alarm for what was the get together of Jefferson and Jackson.
Swing states don’t have a tendency to remain swing states without end. Oregon, for instance, which is now to date left that Chairman Mao would say, “tone it down a bit,” was a toss-up 30 years in the past, however instances and events change.
Bob Casey and Dave McCormick are tied in Pennsylvania, in line with a brand new ballot. (AP/ Reuters)
For now, Pennsylvania nonetheless has one Democrat senator in John Fetterman, who at instances appears to chart his personal centrist course towards the leftist headwinds of his nationwide get together, and Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro, who additionally appears circumspect about abject progressivism.
But when the Democrats nationally overlook what Fetterman and Shapiro see, that unchecked wokeness and far-left insurance policies are roundly and soundly rejected by the voters, then even they gained’t have the ability 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 exterior the election commissioner’s assembly on Wednesday, and his level was simply taken.
For 4 years we heard little else about Trump apart from his election denialism, and we had been advised it was a grave and grievous risk to the nation. But right here was an elected Democratic official promising to interrupt the legislation and rely 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 no less than gesture in the direction of a extra centrist method, but when the nationwide get together continues its lurch to the far left, it won’t 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 may be each cause to imagine that Pennsylvanians will proceed their march to the precise.
These had been all the time Joe Biden and Ed Rendell Democrats, they had 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 widespread sense.
If Republicans can flip Pennsylvania reliably crimson, 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 unimaginable windmill of a recount. It isn’t about him, it is not about now, it is about subsequent time. It’s about sustaining that wiggle room in poll counting that so typically nudges Democrats throughout the end line.
However this time, the individuals seen, this time they got here out to protest, and subsequent time, they could be poised handy Republicans the important thing to generational energy.
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