November 14, 2021

DONALD WHO?:

GOP roars back to life in Trump-resistant Pennsylvania suburbs (HOLLY OTTERBEIN, 11/14/2021, Politico)

The Philadelphia suburbs buried Donald Trump in 2020.

One year later, after enabling Joe Biden to flip one of the nation's most critical swing states, their lurch in the opposite direction is a cause for alarm among Democrats.

Largely overlooked amid the party's dismal suburban results in Virginia and New Jersey last week, Republicans regained ground in the vote-rich Philly suburbs after years of losses under Trump. The GOP flipped multiple row offices in populous Bucks County, carried a state Supreme Court race there, and even came close to winning seats on the county council in Delaware County, where Biden romped by nearly 30 points in 2020.

Pennsylvania will be home to highly competitive House, Senate and gubernatorial races in next year's midterm elections -- and the GOP's local comeback here shows that Democrats' newfound shakiness among suburban voters reaches far deeper than one or two states.

Joe's success in excising the tumor removed his own raison d'etre. 
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