Republicans are trying to survive an anti-Trump wave in the Philly suburbs

[RandySF]

Whether that’s enough for them to hold on to power will help show whether suburban voters simply want to get rid of Trump — or a wholesale repudiation of anyone associated with the party he leads. After winning the national suburban vote by 5 points in 2016, Trump now trails Democratic nominee Joe Biden among those voters by 8 points, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released this week. Trump’s warning that Biden will “destroy” the suburbs and insistence that “the suburban housewife” will ultimately back him have so far fallen flat outside Philadelphia.

“In the suburbs, the president frankly isn’t popular,” Killion said in an interview as he and a group of supporters handed out fliers highlighting his work to fight the coronavirus pandemic, lower the cost of prescription drugs, support public schools, and push a 2018 law to “keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers.”

“That has hurt Republican candidates down ballot,” Killion said of Trump, whose nominating convention kicks off Monday. “But we also here, in this district, have a history of ticket-splitting. It happened with [Democratic former Gov. Ed] Rendell. It happened with Trump last time. I don’t expect anything different in November.”

Chris Borick, a pollster at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, said voters may not have “deep-seated anger” with down-ballot suburban Republicans. “But they’ve got an ‘R’ next to them right now,” he said, “and if you’re angry at the top, you might be spreading that anger around a little more than you have in the past.”



https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/philadelphia-suburbs-republicans-trump-20200823.html

[abqtommy]

1. The reTHUGS should have thought about surviving as a party back in the Nixon days before

they decided to wreak havoc on all aspects of U.S. political and social institutions. It's too late for
them to interest anyone else in supporting their survival at this point in time.

[OrlandoDem2]

2. We need Philly Democrats to show up in record numbers and vote Blue up and down the ballot!

And we especially need POC to GOTV like never before. Philly and its suburbs are one thing I’m watching leading up to the election.

[beachbumbob]

3. anti-trump suburban voters are everywhere, Atlanta, Tulsa, Austin,

- the scare tactics will fall on deaf ears as these voters don't believe what ever trump says
- the trump/gop "taxcut" COST these households bigtime as their taxes ALL WENT UP

[bamagal62]

4. This.

[NNadir]

5. I occasionally have to drive through Bucks country and above.

I see a lot of Trump signs. Some of them are really and truly horrible. There's one racist pig up there at a Texaco station who flies the confederate flag along side his plethora of Trump. You can't be more racist than that.

I hope that my theory - which proved to be wrong in 2016 - that people obnoxious enough to support an ignorant racist are just louder and more up front than sane people: In 2016 seeing these signs was my first inkling that Hillary Clinton might actually lose Pennsylvania.

On the bright side, for the first time ever in this physically beautiful region inhabited by some very ugly people, I did see Biden signs in a few places.

Northeastern PA, with the exception of a few small cities, strikes me as a very right wing region, generally, whether Joe Biden came from Scranton or not.