Dave Weigel
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You can turn out Allegheny in Philadelphia, et cetera.
But yeah, flipping Bucks County, they kept the county council, Luzerne, which is one of the if you remember Hazleton and the mayor of Hazleton going to Congress and the popularity of his anti-immigrant measures there.
There was a reversal there.
Democrats picked that up.
And so how much of that?
Erie County, which is a swing county that used to be super democratic.
And then Trump won it again in twenty twenty four.
Democrats got rid of โ they had a pretty big margin because I think they're done counting.
They flipped back the county executive office.
They just won a lot down the ballot in addition to winning those state Supreme Court races.
I think those did get attention, the fact that Democrats wanted to retain these justices.
It was harder to cover because, you know, the justices, they did one TV ad, but they're not they're not out there at diners answering questions about Zoram Omdani.
The theme is talk to Democrats.
They were not BSing me.
They were not nervous, but they thought they'd win.
And then they won by 20 points.
And Republicans were just were not able anywhere in Pennsylvania to say, hey, guy who voted for Donald Trump, it's very important for you to come out for this more obscure election to support Donald Trump.
How much of that is people who might come back to vote against Shapiro, might come back for J.D.