Pennsylvania – Red Wave Press https://redwave.press We need more than a red wave. We need a red tsunami. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:05:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://redwave.press/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Pennsylvania – Red Wave Press https://redwave.press 32 32 “You Know It’s Serious When Amish Get Involved” https://redwave.press/you-know-its-serious-when-amish-get-involved/ https://redwave.press/you-know-its-serious-when-amish-get-involved/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:05:48 +0000 https://redwave.press/you-know-its-serious-when-amish-get-involved/ (Zero Hedge)—As Pennsylvania’s polls near closing, an unexpected twist has emerged: a massive mobilization of Amish voters. Known for their separation from mainstream society and reliance on traditional values, such as horse-and-buggy transportation (arguably more ‘green’ than EVs), these folks, traditionally not big participators in US politics, have been out in force at PA polling stations, voting for former President Trump after Biden-Harris’ big gov’t waged war on the community.

Let’s begin with the context. Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and big government Democrats targeted a small Amish farmer in Lancaster over compliance issues. This apparently infuriated the Amish community that many of them registered to vote and voted red in the last several days.

Real America’s Voice’s Tera Dahl was speaking at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Monday, and she explained that the Amish community is not a traditional group of voters in US elections.

“But they’re voting this year – and I think a big reason is the overreach of government – and one example that could’ve had a big impact was back in January. An Amish farmer was selling his milk – and the gov’t raided his home and stopped his business,” she said.

An Amish person was asked outside one PA polling station: “Who are you voting for?”

He responded, “Donald Trump.” He explained that the Amish had “more freedoms under Trump,” while government overreach drastically increased under Biden-Harris.

US Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., whose district includes Lancaster County, at the epicenter of America’s Amish population, told PBS News last week, “They just want government to stay not only out of their businesses but out of their religion.”

With family roots deep in the Amish community, Smucker forecasted a dramatic increase in the Amish vote, “basing that on the enthusiasm we see.”

]]> https://redwave.press/you-know-its-serious-when-amish-get-involved/feed/ 0 228293 One County Could Swing 2024’s Most Important Battleground State — Is Trump Positioned to Win It? https://redwave.press/one-county-could-swing-2024s-most-important-battleground-state-is-trump-positioned-to-win-it/ https://redwave.press/one-county-could-swing-2024s-most-important-battleground-state-is-trump-positioned-to-win-it/#respond Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:21:30 +0000 https://redwave.press/one-county-could-swing-2024s-most-important-battleground-state-is-trump-positioned-to-win-it/ DCNF(DCNF)—It is nearly impossible to find a street in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, that does not have Trump-Vance and Harris-Walz signs lining the sidewalks.

The county is widely considered to be one of the most important battlegrounds within 2024’s most important battleground state as one of the last swing areas left in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton managed to win Bucks County by less than 2,000 votes in 2016, when former President Donald Trump carried the state, and President Joe Biden won it by about 17,000 votes on his way to winning Pennsylvania and the general election in 2020.

With days to go until Election Day, Republicans and Democrats are doing their best to run through the tape and deliver the county — and the Keystone State writ large — for their respective parties. Both parties and aligned outside groups are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the presidential race, as well as down-ballot contests. 

A typical street corner in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is pictured with numerous political yard signs promoting Democrats and Republicans. (Photo via Daily Caller News Foundation)

By The Numbers

Bucks County also provides a cross-section of the state at large, containing urban, suburban, exurban and rural areas. The county’s composition and its demographic breakdown make it a decent indicator of how things may turn out statewide and a county to watch closely as returns start rolling in, a Trump campaign official told the DCNF.

Nearly every prominent pollster and pundit in the country is projecting that Pennsylvania will be as competitive as can be, with Bucks County right in the middle of the partisan tug-of-war. However, Barry Summers — a data engineering consultant by day who has meticulously analyzed Bucks County voting data in efforts to help elect Republicans — believes current early voting and vote-by-mail data suggests Trump will win the county by several percentage points, he told the DCNF.

Relative to the 2020 cycle, Republican mail-in votes are up by about 20,000 — or 60% — in Bucks County, while Democrats have so far managed to secure 98% of the approximately 79,000 mail-in ballots they did in the 2020 cycle, Summers told the DCNF. Meanwhile, Bucks County has seen a 21% increase in mail-in ballots from independent and unaffiliated voters in the 2024 cycle relative to the 2020 cycle, according to Summers.

Summers has also observed that the volume of GOP mail-in votes has accelerated since early October while the pace of Democrat early votes has decelerated since then, and that independent and unaffiliated voters are sending in their votes later “almost in the exact same pattern that the Republicans are,” said Summers. While the pattern alone does not prove anything about voters’ intentions, it suggests to Summers that these unaffiliated and independent voters may be breaking favorably enough for Republicans.

While some of these early votes could cannibalize the Election Day GOP vote, Summers has reason to believe that many of these early votes are coming from lower-propensity voters and that dependable Republican voters will mostly show up to vote on Nov. 5, he told the DCNF. Additionally, Summers sees what he believes to be clear indications that enthusiasm in some key Democratic constituencies, such as young people, is not robust.

“The Democrat propaganda says the youth are outraged and that they’re voting in droves. That is not happening in Bucks County. I looked at voting by age, for 18-year olds, for 19-year olds and so on, what percentage of the people who voted by mail-in ballot are Democrats by each age,” Summers told the DCNF. “The peak share of the Democrat voters are people in their 30s. So, in other words, people in their 30s have registered as mail-in ballot voting Democrats more than any other age of life, the college turnout is very comparable to the Democrat average for the whole county.”

“So what does that tell us?” Summers continued. “That tells us that college age Democrats in Bucks County were as motivated to turn into mail in ballot applications as the average Democrat was overall. There isn’t some surge in the youth vote where they’re all excited and everybody else can’t be bothered. That is just not happening. There’s no passion in the youth vote.”

Moreover, the unaffiliated and independent early vote has skewed toward males so far in Bucks County, a trend that benefits Trump if it holds given that Trump is polling better with men than women in the 2024 cycle, Summers said.

‘We Feel Pretty Confident’

Other Republicans on the ground in Bucks County are also feeling confident to the extent they can, albeit with more anecdotal supporting evidence than the numbers Summers cites. Several Bucks County Republicans pointed out that Trump can theoretically lose Bucks County by a margin of about two percent or less and still be in good shape statewide, as occurred in the 2016 race.

“I am cautiously optimistic. What we’re seeing on the ground here in Bucks County, it’s a wave like we’ve never seen, even in 2020 and 2016,” Ed Sheppard, the communications chair for the Doylestown Republican Committee, told the DCNF. “We’re seeing people who’ve never voted before register to vote, to come out to vote for the Republicans. And I think in Bucks County, the top of the ticket is going to drive the down ballot.”

Bucks County Trump voters who convened on Wednesday at the McDonald’s franchise in the county where the former president campaigned earlier in October also told the DCNF that they sense a level of enthusiasm and urgency from grassroots Republicans that they did not feel in 2020. Numerous local GOP officials and volunteers working to turn out voters also said they are feeling and seeing strong levels of enthusiasm for Trump on the ground in conversations with the DCNF.

Local Democrats, meanwhile, are putting stock in suburban women and the issue of abortion access to help carry Vice President Kamala Harris and down-ballot candidates to victory in the county.

“Women have been underestimated for a very long time, but we could be the reason that Bucks goes blue and we elect a President Harris,” Anna Payne, the local Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania State House, told The New Yorker in October. Nationally and in Pennsylvania, Democrats are betting that campaigning hard on access to abortion could be the key to winning over enough suburban female voters to secure electoral victories, TIME recently reported.

While some Bucks County Republicans are concerned about college-educated women showing up in force for Democrats, others, like Jim Worthington — a longtime Trump donor and ally who led Pennsylvania’s delegation at the Republican National Convention this summer — believe that abortion is not as salient of an issue for the Bucks County electorate as it may have been in the 2022 midterms, which occurred just months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

“It’s the issue that cost Dr. Oz the election in the Senate race, as well as vote by mail. They were the two issues that cost him the election, and because they just came off the overturning of Roe,” Worthington told the DCNF. “The Democratic Party used that as a weapon, because people didn’t understand it. And as time went on, more people understood that the power has been put back to each state and the voters of each state. So I don’t think it is nearly the issue it was.”

Worthington’s small army of volunteers mobilizing voters has consistently heard from female voters about the pressures of inflation and higher living costs, he added.

The Trump campaign, meanwhile, does not see a pressing need to tailor a specific message for suburban women in Bucks County beyond urging voters to consider whether they are better off today than they were four years ago, a campaign official told the DCNF.

“Our topline message is the same for whoever we’re talking to. That includes men or women, young or old, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, or whoever. And the message is, are you better off now than you were four years ago?” the Trump campaign official told the DCNF. “We’re bringing up kitchen table, bread-and-butter issues like inflation, cost of living, affordability. We’re talking about things like biological men playing in their or their daughters’ sports and sports leagues and using the same locker bathroom facilities. We’re talking about immigration and crime, especially in areas like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh … We’re not treating [suburban women] like an exotic other, but another group of voters who are affected by things like inflation, by crime, by these far-left pushes on things like biological men playing in women’s sports, and that sort of thing.”

“We’re not resting on our laurels or taking anything for granted, obviously, but overall, we feel pretty confident in Bucks County, and by extension, the rest of Pennsylvania.”

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]]> https://redwave.press/one-county-could-swing-2024s-most-important-battleground-state-is-trump-positioned-to-win-it/feed/ 0 228084 The Amish Could Be the Key to Trump Winning Pennsylvania https://redwave.press/the-amish-could-be-the-key-to-trump-winning-pennsylvania/ https://redwave.press/the-amish-could-be-the-key-to-trump-winning-pennsylvania/#respond Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:29:26 +0000 https://redwave.press/the-amish-could-be-the-key-to-trump-winning-pennsylvania/ The upcoming presidential election in Pennsylvania might hinge on an unexpected demographic: the Amish community. Traditionally known for their reluctance to engage in political activities, recent political strategies have identified the Amish as potentially key voters, especially in light of their significant numbers in Lancaster County, one of Pennsylvania’s most conservative areas.

Reports from the communities in both Pennsylvania and Ohio indicate this election is very different from any past presidential election. This is due in large part to attacks on Amish autonomy, including their freedom to cooperate and trade natural food products.

Political operatives, particularly those aligned with former President Donald Trump, have been actively campaigning within these communities, employing methods that respect the Amish way of life. This includes handwritten letters, personal visits, and avoiding modern communication tools like emails or online ads, which are contrary to Amish practices. This grassroots approach aims to connect with the Amish on issues that resonate with their values, such as religious freedom, traditional family structures, and economic policies that favor small, family-owned businesses.

Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), who grew up Amish, spoke to Fox News about how more Amish had switched from farming to running businesses, and were “becoming much more engaged politically.”

The Amish, not traditionally known for their political involvement, have been approached with messages that align with their conservative values. This outreach is not just about numbers; it’s about understanding and appealing to the Amish’s deep-rooted beliefs in simplicity, community, and faith. However, the engagement with politics is met with varied reactions within the community, where some see voting as a necessary engagement with the outside world, while others view it as contrary to their separation from worldly affairs.

“You have a minority of the Amish who are now farming, agricultural,” Smucker told the outlet. “They’ve run out of land in Lancaster County a long time ago. So, there’s a new generation of Amish who are business owners, they’re running their very successful businesses — some of them are large businesses. And, so they’re becoming much more engaged politically than their parents were.”

With an estimated 44,000 Amish in the Lancaster County area alone, and considering only about half are of voting age, the number of potential Amish voters is significant but not overwhelmingly large. However, in a closely contested state like Pennsylvania, even a small shift could influence the outcome. The community’s growth rate, which outpaces the national average, suggests an increasing political relevance in future elections.

If Trump’s campaign successfully mobilizes even a fraction of these voters, it could tip the scales in Pennsylvania, a battleground state crucial for any presidential hopeful. This strategy reflects a broader recognition of how niche demographics, when aligned with broader political movements, can play disproportionate roles in election outcomes.

The Amish in Pennsylvania represent more than just votes; they symbolize a shift in political strategies towards communities often overlooked or deemed uninterested in politics. While their impact might be more symbolic than definitive in this election, the effort to engage them highlights evolving political landscapes where every community, no matter how small or reclusive, is seen as a potential ally in the quest for electoral success. This approach not only challenges how we think about voter turnout but also how political campaigns adapt to cultural diversity within the electorate.

Article partially generated from corporate media reports.

]]> https://redwave.press/the-amish-could-be-the-key-to-trump-winning-pennsylvania/feed/ 0 228047 Blatant Voter Suppression in Pennsylvania With 5-Hour Lines on Final Day https://redwave.press/blatant-voter-suppression-in-pennsylvania-with-5-hour-lines-on-final-day/ https://redwave.press/blatant-voter-suppression-in-pennsylvania-with-5-hour-lines-on-final-day/#respond Fri, 01 Nov 2024 22:20:01 +0000 https://redwave.press/blatant-voter-suppression-in-pennsylvania-with-5-hour-lines-on-final-day/ After being ordered by a judge to extend early voting until today at 5:00 PM, election officials in Bucks County, Pennsylvania lashed out by manning voting stations with the minimum required staff. Their intention appears to be to dissuade voters, particularly supporters of Donald Trump, from having reasonable access to voting booths.

According to Collin Rugg:

Voters are reporting a 5+ hour wait line in Bucks County, Pennsylvania after early voting was extended until today, Friday, at 5 pm. Blatant voter suppression.

“Bucks County elections officials did the bare minimum to comply with court’s order to provide voting access through 5PM today,” Trump campaign’s @JamesBlairUSA said.

“They staffed some offices with just 1 or 2 people, ensuring long lines.”

The following video is in Levittown, PA where @ScottPresler says he has sent an “army of people to record what’s going.”

As Rugg later reported, they had two days to fix this and still “missed” on the expectations. He also noted that the only way for Trump to win is to win big. “Too big to rig” has been a mantra of the campaign and continues to be the most likely course for a Trump victory.

Citizens are working together to mitigate losses due to long lines. Pizzas were ordered at one location so hungry voters wouldn’t have to leave.

Here’s more video of the long lines:

This is a developing story that will be updated when more is known.

]]> https://redwave.press/blatant-voter-suppression-in-pennsylvania-with-5-hour-lines-on-final-day/feed/ 0 228037 Trump: ‘Bad Spots in Pennsylvania’ Amid Election Fraud Reports https://redwave.press/trump-bad-spots-in-pennsylvania-amid-election-fraud-reports/ https://redwave.press/trump-bad-spots-in-pennsylvania-amid-election-fraud-reports/#respond Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:27:49 +0000 https://redwave.press/trump-bad-spots-in-pennsylvania-amid-election-fraud-reports/ (The Center Square)–Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago press conference began with an acknowledgement of voter registration fraud allegations in Pennsylvania.

“There’s some bad spots in Pennsylvania where some serious things have been caught or are in the process of being caught,” he said to the crowd gathered at his infamous Palm Beach, Fla., private club, on Tuesday morning.

The comment comes amid a growing list of early election missteps, including batches of fraudulent voter registrations intercepted in Lancaster County; a bomb threat at the Republican Campaign Committee headquarters in Montgomery County; and election workers disbanding a line of voters returning ballots in-person in Delaware County.

Questions have also risen after more batches of voter registration forms were dropped off this week in York County, which sits just across the Susquehanna River from Lancaster County.

In a statement to multiple media outlets, including CBS 21, York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler confirmed a “large delivery of thousands of election-related materials from a third-party organization” had been received. Completed registration forms and mail-in ballot applications were contained within.

“As with all submissions, our staff follows a process for ensuring all voter registrations and mail-in ballot requests are legal,” she said. “That process is currently underway. If suspected fraud is identified, we will alert the District Attorney’s Office, which will then conduct an investigation. We will have no further comment until our internal review has been completed.”

The investigation into 2,500 suspected fraudulent ballots in nearby Lancaster County remains ongoing.

The Department of State’s daily report shows 1.4 million mail-in ballots have been received so far, including 849,849 from registered Democrats; 468,067 from Republicans; and 155,909 from unaffiliated voters.

The total number of ballots requested will likely still rise as Tuesday is the deadline for voters to ask for one. Overall, more than 9 million residents are registered to vote in the state.

]]> https://redwave.press/trump-bad-spots-in-pennsylvania-amid-election-fraud-reports/feed/ 0 227926 What Do the Pennsylvania Mail Ballot Numbers Tell Us? https://redwave.press/what-do-the-pennsylvania-mail-ballot-numbers-tell-us/ https://redwave.press/what-do-the-pennsylvania-mail-ballot-numbers-tell-us/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:52:54 +0000 https://redwave.press/what-do-the-pennsylvania-mail-ballot-numbers-tell-us/ (The Economic Collapse Blog)—November 5th is still about a week away, but more than 47 million Americans have already voted.  Early voting has become quite prominent in states all over the country, and the numbers that we are getting so far appear to be quite promising for the Trump campaign.  There have been rumors that the Harris campaign is starting to panic, and I think that they have good reason to panic.  Unless something dramatic happens over the next week, it is going to be very difficult for Harris to find a path to 270 electoral votes.  Today, I want to take a closer look at the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania.  Without Pennsylvania, there is probably no possible way that Harris can win, and right now the numbers we are getting from the state do not look promising for her.

In 2020, Joe Biden got 3,458,229 votes in Pennsylvania and Donald Trump got 3,377,674.

So Biden won the state by a margin of less than 100,000 votes. Unlike other states, in-person early voting is not happening in Pennsylvania.  All of the early votes that are coming in are mail ballots, and Democrats tend to dominate mail voting all over the nation.

But the numbers that we are getting from Pennsylvania in 2024 look much different from the numbers that we got from Pennsylvania in 2020.

In 2020, a total of 3,087,524 mail ballots were requested, but in 2024 only 2,090,960 mail ballots have been requested and the deadline for requesting one is almost here. So there will be close to a million fewer mail ballots that could potentially be sent in this time around.

Needless to say, that is huge. In addition, the gap between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to mail voting in Pennsylvania has narrowed considerably this election cycle. In 2020, Democrats returned 1,702,484 mail ballots and Republicans returned 623,404 mail ballots. So Democrats had built up a lead of more than a million votes in the state before Election Day even arrived.

That absolutely gigantic lead proved to be too much, and Trump ultimately lost by a narrow margin. But things are very different here in 2024.

According to the latest numbers, Democrats have returned 823,421 mail ballots and Republicans have returned 443,935 mail ballots.

Instead of the million ballot lead that they had last time, Democrats have only built up a gap of less than 400,000 ballots so far.

Everyone is projecting that Trump will run far stronger than Harris on the day of the election in Pennsylvania, and if Harris ultimately loses Pennsylvania it is hard to see how she could pull together enough electoral votes to win the election.

But there is still about a week to go until November 5th, and so much could still happen. Hopefully voting will go very smoothly all over the country, but already we are getting some very troubling reports.

For example, on Monday fires were reported at ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington…

Federal authorities are investigating fires at two ballot boxes reported Monday morning in the Portland, Oregon, area.

Police responded to a call about a fire in Portland about 3:30 a.m. Monday, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement. An “incendiary device” was placed inside the box and security personnel extinguished the fire, officials said.

Federal officials are investigating the incident in Portland and a second fire in nearby Vancouver, Washington, with the help of state and local law enforcement agencies, said Steve Bernd, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Seattle office.

This should make all of us very angry.

When someone tries to disrupt the voting process, they are committing a crime against all of us.

At this point, police are telling us that the two incidents are connected and they have identified a “suspect vehicle”…

Police say two fires set at ballot boxes in separate states are connected with just eight days until Election Day in what appears to be a serious case of attempted election interference.

In Portland, Oregon, police have identified a ‘suspect vehicle’ after a ballot box in the southeast part of the city was lit on fire early Monday morning and hundreds of votes were destroyed.

Hopefully they will catch whoever did this.

In Colorado, “nearly 30,000 previously cast votes” are getting a second look after a number of fraudulent ballots were caught by authorities…

Mesa County, Colorado, is reexamining nearly 30,000 previously cast votes after the discovery of a dozen fraudulent ballots, with some voters reporting that ballots were intercepted and submitted without their consent.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced Thursday during a press conference that over a dozen mailed ballots were intercepted and cast fraudulently before the actual voters even had a chance to receive them.

This alarming situation has sparked a full-blown criminal investigation, and three of those fraudulent votes were counted before the tampering was caught.

Colorado could be one of the big surprises on November 5th.

It had been considered to be a lock for the Democrats, but so far Democrats have only built up a lead of about 3 percent in votes cast during the early voting period.

Once we get to the night of the election, most of the nation will be breathlessly awaiting the results. And when it is all over, one side is going to be experiencing very deep emotional pain.

For a long time I have been warning that we will see extreme chaos in the aftermath of this election, and a newly released poll has discovered that most Americans believe that civil unrest is likely…

Most Americans expect violence following Election Day but remain confident their vote will be counted accurately and are willing to accept the results of the presidential race, a new Scripps News/Ipsos poll found.

The survey of 1,000 Americans finds bipartisan concerns over unrest after Nov. 5. Overall, 62% of respondents – including 70% of Democrats and 59% of Republicans – say violence related to the election is “somewhat“ or “very likely.”

And among respondents in the key battleground state of Wisconsin, which was also measured as part of the survey, concerns over violence are higher, at 72%.

My hope is that once a winner is declared, the mainstream media, key celebrities and our top political leaders will all urge Americans to be calm.

But I wouldn’t count on that happening.

Instead, I think that it is far more likely that about half the country will throw a historic temper tantrum, and that won’t be good for any of us.

Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

]]> https://redwave.press/what-do-the-pennsylvania-mail-ballot-numbers-tell-us/feed/ 0 227846 Are Philly Democrats Ready to Turn to Trump? Because They Definitely Should Be… https://redwave.press/are-philly-democrats-ready-to-turn-to-trump-because-they-definitely-should-be/ https://redwave.press/are-philly-democrats-ready-to-turn-to-trump-because-they-definitely-should-be/#respond Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:40:54 +0000 https://redwave.press/are-philly-democrats-ready-to-turn-to-trump-because-they-definitely-should-be/ In a shocking turn of events, working-class Democrats in Philadelphia are contemplating a vote for former President Donald Trump this November. This trend, reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer, raises serious questions about the effectiveness and trustworthiness of the Biden-Harris administration. Have Democrats in the city, a once reliable blue bastion, finally had enough of the same hollow promises?

Take Gabriel Lopez, a 27-year-old who once championed Hillary Clinton in 2016. Now, he’s switched his registration to Republican and is vocally supporting Trump.

“Democrats keep saying [Trump] is going to bring down the economy, but he was already president for four years, and taxes were lower,” Lopez stated. “We’re tired of the same politics. We got a different type of guy, and the people actually love him.”

What does this say about the Democratic Party’s grip on its voters? It’s clear that working-class Pennsylvanians are feeling the pinch of rising prices, and many are pointing fingers at the policies of the Democrats.

As the Inquirer points out, Lopez is emblematic of the Democrats’ growing crisis in Pennsylvania. This once-reliable voting bloc has drifted towards the Republicans, and the economic hardship faced by these voters has only accelerated this shift.

Retired truck driver Jim Kohn also weighed in, lamenting the soaring costs under the current administration.

“When Trump was president, everything was cheaper,” Kohn said. “Now, everything is so sky-high.”

These sentiments are echoed by others in the area, who grapple with the reality of their economic struggles. While some Democrats still hold out hope for Vice President Kamala Harris, others are beginning to recognize the allure of Trump’s message.

“Many of us have people in our families who have gone to jail, or gone to schools that have failed us. We’re not trustful of the government,” stated Álvarez Febo, a Democrat intending to vote for Harris. “Then you have someone like Trump, who is a liar, and for some people, it’s like, ‘you know something? He’s an honest representation of what we feel.’”

But what does that say about Harris’ campaign? The lofty claims that “Kamala is going to save our democracy” ring hollow to those struggling to make ends meet.

“They’re saying Kamala is going to save our democracy,” Febo pointed out. “That means very little for people who can’t keep the lights on.”

The Republican party is buzzing with optimism, sensing a shift in the political landscape. Charlie O’Connor, the 45th Ward GOP Leader, notes a historic change in voter alignment.

“When I first started in politics in 1978, the managerial class was Republican — no one votes the way their bosses vote,” he remarked. “Now, most people in the managerial class vote Democratic and no one is voting the way their boss is. So it’s been a flip. Most of the bosses are Democrats and the Democratic Party has become the party of the upper middle class.”

With Pennsylvania being a critical battleground for the upcoming presidential election, current polling shows Harris and Trump locked in a tight race at 49% each among likely voters. As the 2024 election looms, the growing support for Trump among Philadelphia Democrats could very well reshape the political narrative. It’s time to pay attention.

Article generated from corporate media reports.

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