DAVID MARCUS: Election shenanigans show Dems' fear of Pennsylvania turning red

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. – The assemblage lined up waiting for the meeting of the Bucks County Election Commission earlier this week was angry. The lone happening missing was the pitchforks.

The hullabaloo was caused erstwhile 1 of the commissioners, Diane Ellis-Marseglia, announced the week earlier that authorities Supreme Court rulings don’t really matter, and she was going to number amerciable ballots successful the Keystone State's U.S. Senate race, anyway.

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On Wednesday, she benignant of apologized to the frothing assemblage demanding her resignation, past connected Thursday Democratic Sen. Bob Casey conceded his loss to challenger Dave McCormick. For each intents and purposes the contention was over, but wherefore had it happened successful the archetypal place?

"This is each astir 2026," Nick told maine extracurricular the authorities offices. 

In his precocious 20s oregon aboriginal 30s, Nick is 1 of those Gen Z blimpish men you support proceeding truthful overmuch about, hairsbreadth slicked back, sunglasses conscionable so. "Casey isn’t gonna beryllium the senator, but they privation these ballots to number adjacent time," helium said.

A assemblage gathers up of a gathering of the Bucks County Election Commission successful Doylestown, Pennsylvania. (David Marcus/Fox News Digital)

This each speaks to a warranted fearfulness among Democrats that Pennsylvania, agelong the swingingest of the plaything states, could beryllium moving, similar Ohio and Florida earlier it, solidly into the Republican column.

While the contention betwixt McCormick and Casey was supposedly adjacent capable to merit a recount, the contention atop the summons betwixt Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was not. It wasn’t a blowout, but similar the nationalist tally, astatine astir a two-point lead, Trump’s triumph was decisive.

Even successful Philadelphia, the bluest country of the commonwealth, Trump improved upon his 2020 ballot totals portion turnout lagged for Harris and the Democrats. That is simply a large informing alarm for what utilized to beryllium the enactment of Jefferson and Jackson.

Swing states don’t thin to enactment plaything states forever. Oregon, for example, which is present truthful acold near that Chairman Mao would say, "tone it down a bit," was a toss-up 30 years ago, but times and parties change.

Bob Casey and Dave McCormick are tied successful Pennsylvania, according to a caller poll. (AP/ Reuters)

For now, Pennsylvania inactive has 1 Democrat legislator successful John Fetterman, who astatine times seems to illustration his ain centrist people against the leftist headwinds of his nationalist party, and Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro, who besides seems circumspect astir abject progressivism.

But if the Democrats nationally neglect to spot what Fetterman and Shapiro see, that unchecked wokeness and far-left policies are roundly and soundly rejected by the voters, past adjacent they won’t beryllium capable to support Pennsylvania purple.

"If it wasn’t for treble standards, the Democrats would person nary standards astatine all," 1 antheral with a Trump motion shouted extracurricular the predetermination commissioner’s gathering connected Wednesday, and his constituent was easy taken.

For 4 years we heard small other astir Trump different than his predetermination denialism, and we were told it was a sedate and grievous menace to the country. Yet present was an elected Democratic authoritative promising to interruption the instrumentality and number amerciable ballots, conscionable to enactment 1 of her ain successful office.

Democrats successful Pennsylvania look a unsafe crossroad looking forward. Fetterman and Shapiro tin proceed to astatine slightest motion towards a much centrist approach, but if the nationalist enactment continues its lurch to the acold left, it mightiness not substance much.

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If successful 4 years the Democrats erstwhile again nominate a far-left San Francisco wide specified arsenic Gavin Newsom, determination is each crushed to judge that Pennsylvanians volition proceed their march to the right.

These were ever Joe Biden and Ed Rendell Democrats, they were ne'er Nancy Pelosi Democrats.

For Republicans, the acquisition of Pennsylvania couldn’t beryllium simpler. Just enactment the course, simply embody what President-elect Trump rightly refers to arsenic communal sense.

If Republicans tin crook Pennsylvania reliably red, it volition beryllium a oversea alteration successful nationalist politics, the benignant that fundamentally transforms what our governmental parties advocator and basal for.

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That is truly wherefore Casey tilted astatine the intolerable windmill of a recount. It's not astir him, it's not astir now, it's astir adjacent time. It’s astir maintaining that wiggle country successful ballot counting that truthful often nudges Democrats crossed the decorativeness line.

But this time, the radical noticed, this clip they came retired to protest, and adjacent time, they whitethorn beryllium poised to manus Republicans the cardinal to generational power.

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