'Disgusted' voters in the Philly suburbs could help Biden offset Trump's gains in Pennsylvania

[RandySF]

Arnell represents the political transformation of Philadelphia’s suburbs, now largely Democratic and mobilizing against Trump in the final six weeks before the election. While Trump narrowly won America’s suburbs in 2016, Hillary Clinton swept Philadelphia’s four collar counties. It wasn’t enough to stop Trump from narrowly winning the state, and with it the White House. But people like Arnell who had been slowly walking away from the party in these onetime Republican strongholds broke into a sprint after 2016, and they haven’t looked back.

Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in all four counties, and by wide margins in two. Democrats won all but one suburban congressional seat in 2018. And they won control of all four county governments last year — in one case for the first time since the Civil War.
There’s little doubt that Democratic nominee Joe Biden will defeat Trump in the Philadelphia suburbs. The question is whether he’ll do so with big enough margins. Voter registration trends and interviews with dozens of voters over the last two months suggest Trump retains strong political support in the longtime Democratic bastions in small Rust Belt towns throughout Northeastern and Southwestern Pennsylvania that he won in 2016.

That means Biden’s path to victory, in a state increasingly seen as one of the most critical 2020 battlegrounds, relies on racking up big wins in the populous southeast. About 21% of Pennsylvania’s registered voters live in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties.



https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/trump-biden-philadelphia-suburbs-pennsylvania-20200920.html

[Thekaspervote]

1. The inquirer...not sure bout that one. Granted Biden's lead there is less, on avg about 5%

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Agreed!

Yes, 5% is closer than a bit back.
But, 5% behind in a state one won 4 years ago isn't much of a "gain" as they say.
Seems like horserace commentary.

[tman]

2. PA is the only state that really worries me.

I feel good about MI, WI, MN & AZ.

[Calista241]

4. If he wins PA, then we're in big trouble.

[apcalc]

5. What do you mean by that sentence?

[elleng]

6. 'He' who?

[FakeNoose]

7. We're seeing a lot of this in PA this year

It's about time too!