The day after Conor Lamb won the Democratic nomination to run in this very pro-Donald Trump House district, Republican strategist Corry Bliss knew his party had another special election problem on its hands. … Since that November morning, the Republican Party has launched a massive campaign to save a House […] Read more »
Where Democrats Win, and Don’t, in Pennsylvania Gerrymander Ruling
The Republicans are counting on a favorable congressional map to help their majority ride out a possible “wave” election this November. But the congressional map got a little less favorable on Monday when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state’s Republican-drawn congressional map. CONT. Nate Cohn, New York Times Read more »
The first congressional election of 2018: A test of Trump in western Pennsylvania
It snowed the night before Conor Lamb’s campaign rally, coating most of the 18th Congressional District and keeping some voters at home. But 70 loyal Democrats shoveled out and drove to the American Legion hall to meet their candidate for Congress in a district that gave Donald Trump a 19-point […] Read more »
Trump’s Tweets Are Hurting Him With the Voters He Needs Most
… Ten months into his presidency, the failure of any one single scandal to sink his administration has led some in the media to suggest that Trump is like “Teflon,” with the grime that would stick to (and ruin) other politicians simply slipping right off. But the numbers show that […] Read more »
A year after Trump’s election, York, Pa., is forever changed
… Trump’s election a year ago profoundly altered the United States in ways that continue to reverberate, but perhaps most visibly and disturbingly in how we talk to one another, especially about the hardest things, like the nation’s racial divide. The volume is up; the edge is sharp. Old grievances […] Read more »
How Immigration Foiled Hillary
Democrats point to a thousand reasons that Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election. Here is another. … What Democrats missed was the profound political impact recent immigration trends were having on the more rural parts of the once homogeneous Midwest — that the region had unexpectedly become a flash point […] Read more »