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‘He needs to go’: Pennsylvania Republicans blame Trump for their midterms humiliations
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‘He needs to go’: Pennsylvania Republicans blame Trump for their midterms humiliations
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When the results of the 2022 midterms started to come in on Tuesday night, November 8, it was obvious how much of a swing state Pennsylvania continues to be. Democratic Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro enjoyed a double-digit victory of 12 percent over his MAGA Republican opponent, State Sen. Doug Mastriano — a far-right conspiracy theorist, QAnon ally, Christian nationalist and election denier. Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race was much closer, but in the end, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman pulled off a narrow victory over Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz.
In 2023, Pennsylvania will still have a Democratic governor — with Shapiro replacing the term-limited Gov. Tom Wolf — and two Democratic U.S. senators: the liberal/progressive Fetterman and the three-term centrist Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. Democrats flipped a Senate seat that has been mostly in Republican hands for decades — one that is presently occupied by arch-conservative Sen. Pat Toomey (who didn’t seek reelection) and was held by the late Sen. Arlen Specter for many years before that. Specter became a Democrat near the end of his life, but he spent most of his political career as a moderate Republican and held that Senate seat from January 1981-January 2011.
Pennsylvania Republicans are not happy about the way things played out in the Keystone State in the 2022 midterms, and according to reporting in the Philadelphia Inquirer, some of them are pointing the finger at former President Donald Trump — who endorsed and campaigned for Mastriano and Oz.
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In an article published by the Inquirer on November 10, reporters Jonathan Tamari and William Bender explain, “Two days after a series of stinging defeats in Pennsylvania, some Republicans in the state focused their ire on the man who has long stood at the center of their party: Donald Trump.”
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