Defeated "Pro-Trump" Democratic Mayor is Down in the Dumps.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/democrats-vs-trump/defeated-pro-trump-democratic-mayor-down-dumps-n762541

Last year, the mayor of a seen-better-days steel town in Western Pennsylvania became the poster child of President Donald Trump's appeal to white working-class Democrats. But he'll soon be out of work after a 26-year-old assistant band director at the local high school beat him in a Democratic primary.

Monessen Mayor Louis Mavrakis' outspoken support for Trump turned him into a media sensation. The 79-year-old former union organizer helped decode Trump's appeal in the Rust Belt on Sunday political talk shows and for major newspapers, where he was quoted saying things like: "If ISIS was to come to Monessen, they'd keep on going. They'd say someone already bombed the goddamn place."

Trump himself made a high-profile visit to Monessen, a town of just 7,500, on Mavrakis' invitation. Trump stood in front of a wall of recycled trash to slam free-trade policies and promised to bring back good-paying coal mining and steel-making jobs.

But Mavrakis' coup in getting Trump to town also helped lead to his downfall.

More at link.

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1. Yes, this yahoo lost, and good

But take a look at that excerpt: "Trump himself made a high-profile visit to Monessen . . ." That is what Democrats need to do. Big rallies in big venues are fun, but these small town appearances can generate a lot of local excitement, get the Democratic message directly to the people there without the Fox filter, buck up the Democrats fighting the good fight in forgotten corners of the country, and bleed off some Republican support. Democrats don't have to win over every voter in Monessen, but if we improve our totals at the polls by as little as 3%, we win states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in 2020.

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2. Things are lloikng up in western PA.

Braddock is only 25 miles from Monessesn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman_(politician)