19,000 Pennsylvania Republicans Have Left Party

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/22/19000-pennsylvania-republicans-have-left-party/

19,000 Pennsylvania Republicans Have Left Party
February 22, 2021 at 7:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Philadelphia Inquirer: “About 19,000 Pennsylvanians have left the Republican Party since Jan 6. That’s a drop in the bucket for a state with more than 8.8 million registered voters, and almost 3.5 million Republicans. But it’s also an unusually high rate of defections: Almost two-thirds of the voters who have switched parties this year left the GOP, compared with a third or less typically.”

“And there are signs of a broader political shift underway. These are often longtime party loyalists, highly engaged voters who cast Republican primary ballots in low-profile, off-year elections… They haven’t changed their political ideologies, they said in interviews. But they’re registering as third-party or independent voters because they believe that their political home, now led by Trump, has changed around them.”

“That raises the prospect of a Republican primary electorate even friendlier to Trump and Trump-allied candidates — something that could have big implications for the party in competitive races for governor and U.S. Senate next year.”

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. In other words, the Radical Republican Reich will get even more extreme.

[lagomorph777]

5. They will nominate ever-crazier candidates, who will have smaller chances of winning.

We can see where this is headed.

[Iliyah]

2. To me . .. ..

this sounds like "bad" news for republicans.

[sop]

3. How much more extreme will Republican candidates have to become before these disaffected,

former Republicans finally decide to vote for a Democrat in the general election?

[SlogginThroughIt]

4. I don't buy it. Most will still vote R and go crawling back on their bellies.

[lagomorph777]

6. Yes, but many will stay home.

That's what the GQP really needs to worry about.

[SlogginThroughIt]

7. *crosses fingers*

We need to run the tables on a few elections.

[lagomorph777]

8. We sure do.