three judicial retention races<\/a>, as well as downballot elections in 15 counties, including key swing counties such as Bucks, Erie, Luzerne and Northampton,\u00a0as well as wins from traditionally Republican areas such as Lancaster and Beaver counties.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is bad news for the Pennsylvania Republicans who have completely embraced Trump and the most unpopular elements of Washington politics \u2014 from higher costs and taxes, to rampant corruption and attacks on our democracy,\u201d Pennsylvania Democratic Party Chair Eugene DePasquale wrote in a memo. \u201cWhether it\u2019s Stacy Garrity, Doug Mastriano, Ryan Mackenzie, Rob Bresnahan, Scott Perry, or Brian Fitzpatrick, the GOP candidates up in 2026 have championed an agenda of chaos and high prices, and they will be held responsible for it with Pennsylvania voters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Democratic judges won by 3 to 15 points in Beaver, Berks, Columbia, Cumberland, Lancaster, Luzerne, Montour, Pike, Union, Washington and Westmoreland counties \u2014\u00a0all places Trump has won three times\u00a0\u2014\u00a0in last week\u2019s off-year elections (elections that have been more favorable to Democrats in recent cycles).<\/p>\n
Some of those counties will host competitive U.S. House races next year that will be key to determining congressional control, with DePasquale going after GOP Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Scott Perry, Rob Bresnahan and Ryan Mackenzie in the memo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Democratic Party is highlighting the party\u2019s success last week in swing and red counties that voted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-291439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}