Pennsylvania Democrats don't just want to beat Trump in 2020: They want the state House back

[TexasTowelie]

A Democratic state senator who represents a northeast Pennsylvania district that voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 dropped his party registration last week and declared he would caucus with Republicans in Harrisburg.

The next day, a veteran Republican state representative who represents a suburban Philadelphia district that voted for Mitt Romney and then Hillary Clinton announced he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2020.

The developments underscored trends that are cleaving Pennsylvania, and much of the country, along partisan and geographic lines. Even as Democrats have taken control of the once GOP-friendly suburbs, they’re ceding power outside major metropolitan areas, especially in rural and white working-class communities.

Democrats had considered both chambers of the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania legislature to be prime targets for a takeover in 2020. Winning a majority in the state Senate now looks like more of a long shot, strategists in both parties said last week. Republicans are expected to have a 29-21 edge there by next fall.

Read more: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2019/11/26/Pennsylvania-Democrats-fight-regain-House-election-2020/stories/201911260127

[gab13by13]

1. Democratic candidates in Pa. will certainly get more votes,

the total vote count, but thanks to gerrymandering there is no chance in hell that Dems gain the majority in either House. Not gaining the majority, since this is a census year, will insure Republican control for a decade. Sorry to be negative on Thanksgiving but I have been wrong before. It's hard to guess what another blue tsunami might do.

[Freedomofspeech]

2. Living in Westmoreland County....

I absolutely agree with you. The rethuglicans took over this past election....we are out of here this spring. It is pure hillbilly hell here.