What went wrong for MAGA in Pennsylvania
What’s changed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania? The Republican-leaning district in a purple state has been turned on its head by a surprise win for the Democratic party: for the first time since the late 1970s, a local Democratic mayor, James Malone, will take up a place in the State Senate, after a special election was held on Wednesday this week. This is not just an overturn of decades’ worth of party consensus. It seems to be a monumental shift away from the consensus in Lancaster just four months ago, when Donald Trump won the district by 15 points. It was only a one-point drop from his 16-point margin in 2020, when he won the county and lost the state.
