I can't wait for the results of tomorrow's Primary Day. Ds are on a full-court press statewide, running everywhere. Rs need to spend where they never had to before to defend prior safe seats. The R candidates put forth in our region for the statehouse are abysmally amateurish-to-clownish, with multiple desperate campaigns for Republican candidates to run as write-ins tomorrow against D incumbents.
This doesn't mean that the seats are flipping easily from red to blue. But just to hold onto their white-knuckle state senate majority and to keep their house minority margin close enough to have any leverage at all, Rs must empty their coffers for a defense as opposed to pushing valuable dollars to expanding their seats in the General Assembly.
The special elections of the past year are positive indicators for Dems. From flipping a historically R senate seat in 2025 to the surprisingly strong coalition formed over just seven weeks for HD-79 (Blair County) to make Rs earn their 15-point victory in a district with a 55-29 R-to-D advantage. And burning billionaire's cash in statewide elections is becoming a hobby for PA Dems, who rallied voters to crush R candidates in the high-stakes 2025 State Supreme Court race.
This isn't meant to paint a rosy picture, there is hard work, bumps and bruises along the way.
It is validation and a boost of energy to efforts when more is needed to finish this leg of the decades-long marathon ahead to rid ourselves of MAGAtism.
November is not the finish line, it is the start.
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