| Democrats swept Bucks County on Tuesday night – and now vulnerable Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick is officially on the ropes.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports today on why Democrats are feeling bullish that the perfect storm is brewing to topple Fitzpatrick.
Read key excerpts from the Inquirer for yourself:
- Should this week’s election results make Brian Fitzpatrick nervous? Bucks County Democrats think so.
- Democrats pulled something off this year that they haven’t in recent memory. They won each county-wide office by around 10 points — the largest win margin in a decade — and for the first time installed a Democrat, Joe Khan, as the county’s next top prosecutor.
- “This year was unprecedented and sitting here a year before the midterm you have to believe that next year is going to be unprecedented as well,” State Sen. Steve Santarsiero, who is also the county party’s chair, said Wednesday.
- Eli Cousin, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, predicted a “perfect storm brewing for Democrats” to beat Fitzpatrick. “He and Trump’s Republican Party are deeply underwater with Bucks County voters, he has failed to do anything to address rising costs, and we will have a political juggernaut in Governor Josh Shapiro at the top of the ticket,” Cousin said.
- This year’s landslide, Democrats say, is a warning sign.
- “There were Democratic surges in every place that there’s a competitive Congressional seat and that should be scaring the s— out of national Republicans,” said Democratic strategist Brendan McPhilips, who managed Sen. John Fetterman’s campaign in the state and worked on both of the last Democratic presidential campaigns here.
- And then there’s Gov. Josh Shapiro, who Democrats think will give a boost to candidates […] as he runs for reelection next year. Shapiro won the district by 20 points in 2022.
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