Trumpmania Cools in This Pennsylvania Town

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A Democratic mayor invited the Republican insurgent to visit last summer. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
By Albert R. Hunt

A year ago this week, Lou Mavrakis beamed as Donald Trump campaigned in economically-ravaged Monessen, Pennsylvania, promising to bring back steel jobs and punish China for unfair trade practices.

Mavrakis, the mayor of Monessen and a former steelworkers' union official, invited Trump, who then became the first presidential candidate to visit this once-flourishing western Pennsylvania town since 1960, when John F. Kennedy dropped in. By showing up in Monessen, Trump attracted national media attention as a symbol of Republican hopes to appeal to struggling, working-class, white Democrats.

Trump carried surrounding Westmoreland County, once a Democratic stronghold, by almost a 2-to-1 margin and came close in Monessen, which in local races often doesn't even have a Republican on the ballot. Mavrakis, a Democrat, didn't endorse him, but also left no doubt that he thought the Republican insurgent was sympathetic to a community that has lost thousands of jobs and is beset by drug addiction, a poor school system and a dwindling tax base.

A year later, the picture looks different. The mayor was upset in a primary last month by Matt Shorraw, a 26-year-old assistant director of the local high-school band.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-25/trumpmania-cools-in-this-pennsylvania-town

[Wellstone ruled]

1. At least one Town had some kind of awakening.

Sometimes Politics and People get on the same page. Isn't this one of the Canceled Campaign stops last month.

[oberliner]

4. The article says that Trump would still carry the town

If the election were today.

[dsc]

5. actually he lost the town in November

and the implication is he would again, what he did carry in November and the article says he would carry again is the county.

[oberliner]

6. Good point

The town is still more D than R and the county is still more R than D.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

2. Looks like coal in their stockings this Xmas n/m

[Takket]

3. the next dem nominee...

only needs to flip 1 out of every 134 trump voters to win the state.

yup.

that's it

1 out of 134

we can do this