Since the 2024 election, legacy
media pundits and many establishment Democrats have complained that Democrats
focused too heavily on “cultural issues” — meaning everything from abortion to
social justice, which happens to impact the most vulnerable and loyal voters in
the Democratic base. They’ve suggested this focus was ruining the Democratic
Party “brand” among swaths of the electorate, including working-class whites
and rural voters. It turns out that all it took was a couple of years of
atrocious malfeasance and incompetent Trump regime rule (including disastrous
tariffs), some dogged Democratic grassroots organizing, and a crop of
top-flight Democratic candidates to reverse the trend.
Democrat Brandon Dukes scored
a narrow victory in last week’s special election in the
Pennsylvania 12th General Assembly, an overwhelmingly White
Pittsburgh suburban district that has not sent a Democrat to the state house
since the 1990s, and that voted for Donald Trump by 18 points in 2024. The Pennsylvania Capital Star reported that the win
was “a major boon for Pennsylvania Democrats, who are hoping to build momentum
going into a series of key elections this fall.” Pennsylvania Democratic Party
Chair Eugene DePasquale told the paper:
Pennsylvanians across the
political spectrum are sick and tired of Republicans’ chaotic, corrupt, and
cost-raising agenda — and they’re ready to reject them at the polls and elect
Democrats up and down the ballot in historic fashion.
If Democrats can keep the state
house, re-elect Governor Josh Shapiro, and flip 3 state senate seats, they will have a trifecta for
the first time in decades.
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