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US Senate: 5 toss up races, +3, all Dem seats that need flipping, Let's go!
« Reply #1700 on: August 25, 2024, 08:56:34 AM »
SHARE THIS LIST!  Democrats have the money advantage.  Every $ matters.

Still time to donate by check.  They say the campaign starts right after Labor Day.  (So does the early voting.) Don't give these people your primary email address or phone number.  Donation lists get sold and shared, I'm sorry to say.  Get a phone number at textnow.com, a phone app, (or other free voice over internet app) and get a dedicated political donation email address!  Mine is called 'donotreplytoDougatgmaildotcom'.

Small donations matter!
So do big ones!

Montana,  Tim Sheehy,  WE NEED TO WIN MONTANA!
https://timformt.com/donate-by-check/
https://secure.winred.com/tim-sheehy-for-mt/website?sc=20230701_SHEEHY_WEB_MAIN-DONATION_WEB&utm_source=web

Michigan,  Mike Rogers, Michigan is winnable - so let's win it!
https://secure.winred.com/team-rogers/donate?recurring=true&money_pledge=false&amount=50

Ohio, Bernie Mareno.  Why do we have Democrats representing Republican states?
https://secure.winred.com/bernie-moreno-for-senate/donate?sc=20230412_BMORENO_WEB_WEB_WEBSITE_PROC&utm_source=proc&utm_medium=web

Pennsylvania, David McCormick, Pennsylvania is the center of the political universe right now.
Energy in the Senate race helps Trump Vance as well.
https://secure.winred.com/mccormick-pa/home-page?recurring=true

Arizona, Kari Lake, see above, same goes for Arizona.
https://secure.winred.com/kari-lake-for-senate/80203c12-d11c-4183-b8d9-e9181177b481?recurring=false

In my opinion, this isn't about how much you like the individual candidates at this point, the candidates have already been chosen.  This is about whether you want Trump to be able to enact his agenda, build a wall for example, whether of not you want Chuck Schumer and Harris's replacement in the Senate to have one more vote, whether or not you want a check on power, a check against federal court appointments for example, God Forbid if Kamala Harris is elected the next President of the United States.  Every one of these races matters.

How much is that worth, relative to how much (extra) each of us has.

Spread the word.  Small donations is a numbers game.  $20 or $50 or $100 (to each) is a lot of money if 10 million people do it.
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Add Wisconsin , Eric Hovde, to your donor list.  Swing state, leans Dem, margin of victory or defeat matters.  Down by 6 to Arch Liberal, Madison's Tammy Baldwin, and polls tend to be wrong...  Conservative western Wisconsin is in the Twin Cities media market and it takes money to reach these people.
https://secure.winred.com/hovde-for-wisconsin/website-p?utm_source=proc&utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=proc&sc=20240215_HOVDE4WI_PROC_WEBSITE_WEBSITE_DEFAULT

Also Nevada, New Mexico, Maryland. We need more Republican states.  The Senate should be 60-40 R until Democrats turn centrist.  Let's expand the map!

Nevada,  Sam Brown
https://secure.winred.com/sam-brown/website-donation?utm_source=website&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=organic

New Mexico,  Nella Domenici
https://secure.winred.com/nella-for-senate/faf

https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/senate/2024/toss-up
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/25/politics/senate-race-rankings-august-2024/index.html
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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #1701 on: August 25, 2024, 05:07:03 PM »
Doug

How does one pay
by CC?

I know someone getting literally 50 texts or calls a day from Republicans and cannot stop or opt out.
Keep calling back with new numbers.
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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #1702 on: August 26, 2024, 10:18:48 AM »
Doug
How does one pay
by CC?
I know someone getting literally 50 texts or calls a day from Republicans and cannot stop or opt out.
Keep calling back with new numbers.

Those links will work for credit card.  I don't think there is any unusual risk regarding payment method, just protect your phone (texting) number and (primary) email address.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #1703 on: August 26, 2024, 11:38:45 AM »
thank you
I will donate
wish I was billionaire who could do more

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #1704 on: August 26, 2024, 01:24:41 PM »
thank you
I will donate
wish I was billionaire who could do more

It's all proportional.  Harris reportedly has taken in $540 million since ascending.  If you gave $100 million, that alone wouldn't do it.  It's mainly numbers of people giving what's right for them.

We need almost 100 million votes.  The late breaking undecideds aren't going to pay so let's say we have 80 million people.  Of those, half are hard core supporters. If just half of just those give what they can and it averages $20 to $50 each, that is $400 million to $1 billion per (multiplied) round of donation at a high participation level.

If just 10 million people (out of 330 million) give $20 to each key Senate race that's $200 million. 

Then you have large donors, but the real key to large numbers is the broad base of support.  I wish we could make that happen without all the solicitation. The solicitation makes me want to give nothing and hide from them.

Denny S used to talk about push versus pull information.  I'll pull in the information I need, if it's available, don't push it on me.

That said, spread the word to like minded people everybody.  I'm sick of losing.

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The 14 Republicans who voted against Johson's bill
« Reply #1705 on: September 19, 2024, 06:43:17 AM »
that included measure to deport illegal sex criminals

Not who I expected
at least some on list same assholes who voted McCarthy out:

Jim Banks, Indiana
Andy Biggs, Alabama
Lauren Boebert, Colorado
Tim Burchett, Tennessee
Elijah Crane, Arizona
Matt Gaetz, Florida
Wesley Hunt, Texas
Doug Lamborn, Colorado
Nancy Mace, South Carolina
Cory Mills, Florida
Mike Rogers, Alabama
Matt Rosendale, Montana
W. Gregory Steube, Florida
Beth Van Duyne, Texas

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #1706 on: September 19, 2024, 06:48:11 AM »
I saw it asserted that this in part was because there were landlines in the bill that would have handcuffed future Trump actions.

I have no idea either way.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #1707 on: September 19, 2024, 07:21:17 AM »
I am sure it is something like that, but I don't understand how we have the majority, albeit slim, and yet we seem to still have such a hard time passing bills.

Gaetz, Boebert, Rosendale - I just don't know understand their political strategy in finding ways to lose for some ideological point that doesn't mean a damn if in the end we lose.

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Let's start with these two House races, DONATE, SHARE
« Reply #1708 on: September 24, 2024, 07:20:40 AM »
Maine 2nd District  Theriault (R) 47, Golden (D) 44
https://www.austinformaine.com/
https://secure.anedot.com/theriault-for-congress/donate

Nebraska 2nd District   Bacon (R) 46, Vargas (D) 44
https://donjbacon.com/
https://secure.winred.com/donbacon/donate

Both of these districts are separate electoral votes in the Presidential race so your (small) contribution could serve a double purpose.

Please add the close races in your area (and other areas) to this list.

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #1709 on: September 24, 2024, 07:27:19 AM »
Good idea for this thread Doug.

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Senate races:
« Reply #1710 on: September 24, 2024, 07:35:37 AM »
Senate Info posted previously.  Election is already underway. Money donated sooner is more valuable than money donated later...

SHARE THIS LIST!  Democrats have the money advantage.  Every $ matters.

  Don't give these people your primary email address or phone number.  Donation lists get sold and shared.  Get an extra phone number at textnow.com, a phone app, (or other free voice over internet app, talkatone.com) and get a dedicated political donation email address!  Mine is called 'donotreplytoDougatgmaildotcom'.

Small donations matter!  So do big ones!  Time is running out.

Montana,  Tim Sheehy
https://timformt.com/donate-by-check/
https://secure.winred.com/tim-sheehy-for-mt/website?sc=20230701_SHEEHY_WEB_MAIN-DONATION_WEB&utm_source=web

Michigan,  Mike Rogers
https://secure.winred.com/team-rogers/donate?recurring=true&money_pledge=false&amount=50

Ohio, Bernie Mareno.
https://secure.winred.com/bernie-moreno-for-senate/donate?sc=20230412_BMORENO_WEB_WEB_WEBSITE_PROC&utm_source=proc&utm_medium=web

Pennsylvania, David McCormick,
https://secure.winred.com/mccormick-pa/home-page?recurring=true

Arizona, Kari Lake,
https://secure.winred.com/kari-lake-for-senate/80203c12-d11c-4183-b8d9-e9181177b481?recurring=false

Wisconsin Eric Hovde
https://secure.winred.com/hovde-for-wisconsin/website-p?utm_source=proc&utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=proc&sc=20240215_HOVDE4WI_PROC_WEBSITE_WEBSITE_DEFAULT

Nevada,  Sam Brown
https://secure.winred.com/sam-brown/website-donation?utm_source=website&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=organic

New Mexico,  Nella Domenici
https://secure.winred.com/nella-for-senate/faf

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WT: Speaker Johnson should try leading
« Reply #1711 on: September 24, 2024, 08:04:18 AM »
House Speaker Johnson should try leading rather than surrendering

Four steps he could take to unite Republicans

By Deroy Murdock

House Speaker Mike Johnson is folding like a feminine napkin on spending and election integrity. After losing Wednesday’s vote on a continuing resolution and the SAVE Act, the Louisiana Republican will reportedly slide into the passenger seat and let Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, drive for a while. This fiasco will energize and delight Democrats and enrage and demoralize Republicans less than seven weeks before Election Day, even as mail-in ballots are reaching swing-state voters. This will jeopardize the House’s GOP majority and tighten Democrats’ tenuous grip on the Senate. This complicates things for former President Donald Trump. Cackles of joy surely echo through Kamala Harris’ headquarters.

Enough is enough. Mr. Johnson should muster his leadership skills, such as they are, and call Mr. Schumer’s bluff. Saving the SAVE Act will electrify Republicans rather than dim the lights on GOP prospects.

Republicans unanimously support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which excludes foreign citizens from voting in federal elections. When it passed on July 10, all 216 Republicans assented. Five Democrats concurred, but 198 Democrats opposed citizenonly federal elections.

On this issue, Republicans are in sync with the American people, and Democrats are lost in space. A Feb. 16 Tea Party Patriots poll of 1,000 general-election voters found that 87% believe “proof of United States citizenship should be required to vote in American elections.” This includes 96% of Republicans, 89% of independents and 76% of Democrats.

Meanwhile, Republicans splintered Wednesday when 14 fiscal conservatives rejected a continuing resolution with the SAVE Act but without restraints on runaway spending. Two voted present.

Here’s how Mr. Johnson can unite his divided caucus: First, start with the SAVE Act. Second, add a continuing resolution that cuts spending by 1% across the board. Even as a first step, an actual expenditure reduction should satisfy Wednesday’s 16 Republican dissenters.

Third, add House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington’s measure, forcing Congress to stay in Washington and “Get ’er done.”

“Why don’t we, instead of shut the government down, as the threat, shut politicians in?” the Texas Republican asked Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo last Thursday. “No budget, no appropriations, no recess, no go home,” he continued. “Make us stay here and get our work done, like every American family and business has to do. Put the pressure on us to act responsibly instead of what we do, year in and year out.”

After passing this three-part bill, Republicans should add a dash of stagecraft.

With this legislation in hand, Mr. Johnson and every Republican should march on the Senate. As journalists watch, Mr. Johnson should meet with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell and declare: “The House hereby delivers this continuing resolution. If the Senate concurs before October 1, there will be no government shutdown.”

House Republicans will have publicly done their duty to keep the government open, reduce spending, limit federal elections to American citizens and commit themselves to shelter in place to wrap things up before fiscal 2024 ends.

Mr. Schumer then must decide: Should he pass this measure and send it to President Biden to sign? Or should Mr. Schumer make Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin, Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey, Nevada’s Jacky Rosen, Montana’s Jon Tester and other Democrats facing reelection explain back home why they padlocked the government rather than squeeze one penny from each budget dollar? Would Mr. Schumer make these incumbents defend suspended federal functions because Democrats want foreign citizens to cast ballots and cancel the votes of American citizens?

Facing constituent wrath, these Democrats might help Republicans pass Mr. Johnson’s bill.

These Senate votes could be close. This could keep Ms. Harris pinned down in Washington, poised to break ties, rather than in swing states, dodging journalists.

This strategy would force a high-profile national debate on spending and foreign-citizen voting. These issues dovetail perfectly with voters’ chief concerns: the economy and immigration. This Republican bonanza would do the right thing for America.

It just takes leadership

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Races that will determine control of the Senate - Forever!
« Reply #1712 on: September 25, 2024, 06:16:37 AM »
https://x.com/RCPolitics/status/1838660236758126623  1 minute video. 5 close important races.  There are more like 10.  Winning is crucial and margin of victory matters.

Remember that Democrats want to add two Democrat states, 4 Democrat Senators in Washington DC and Puerto Rico.  Try winning the Senate ever again if that happens.  You think President Harris wouldn't do that?

We had a chance to run the table and yet at this late date control of the Senate is in doubt.

Question for those mostly sitting still (including me) as the nation faces this crossroads:

How are you going to win Senate races in Washington DC and Puerto Rico in 2026, 2028 if you can't win in Wisconsin, Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan in 2024.  Even Ted Cruz in Texas, Rick Scott in Florida, and Tim Sheehy in Montana are in close races.

Push versus pull, I throw out all solicitations for money - with the intent to decide for myself when and where I will send money.

The answers for giving money are in this thread, and we can expand on that.  TedCruz.org is one more.

Let's start making lists of ALL the like minded people we know and start calling each other until we know everyone has voted.

When Obama won his second term, it was conservatives that didn't show up.

We aren't going to get very many more second tries at this.

"It can't happen here" is what Venezuelans said when they were the richest country in Latin America.  It IS happening here, witness the 2020 and 2022 elections, and the changes in the country over the last four years.

DID YOU DO YOUR PART TO STOP IT?

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #1713 on: September 25, 2024, 10:38:33 AM »
Doug:

I am forwarding your posts to another forum and on my FB page.

Thank you!

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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #1714 on: September 25, 2024, 10:44:08 AM »
Doug:

I am forwarding your posts to another forum and on my FB page.

Thank you!

Thank you, please spread far and wide everyone!

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Moreno leading in Ohio Senate race
« Reply #1715 on: September 27, 2024, 10:59:17 AM »


GOP challenger Moreno holds slim edge on Democrat incumbent Brown

A new poll shows Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio trailing Republican challenger Bernie Moreno.

Mr. Moreno, a businessman, has the support of 48% of likely voters in the state, and Mr. Brown is favored by 46%, according to a Napolitan News survey.

Former President Donald Trump has long coattails for Mr. Moreno to hang on to in the Buckeye State. The poll also showed Mr. Trump leading his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, by 11 points.

“Moreno benefits from the fact that Donald Trump is leading the presidential race in Ohio by 11 points,” the pollster said “This race is a classic test as to whether or not a long-term and popular incumbent can overcome the political gravity of a state.”

The challenge to Mr. Brown is key to GOP hopes of taking the upper chamber, where Democrats hold a two-seat majority.

Republicans also are eyeing pickups in West Virginia and Montana.

The Senate race is closer than the presidential race in Ohio because Mr. Brown is supported by 93% of Ms. Harris’ voters, while Mr. Moreno is supported by 83% of Mr. Trump’s voters, according to the poll.

— Kerry Picket



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Question for Doug
« Reply #1718 on: October 01, 2024, 07:37:42 AM »
Why are we only up 2 to 3 seats in Senate and maybe losing in the House.

Is it poor candidates?

Is it the Trump effect? Let us not remember he is more of a loser than winner.    He only won '16 by a tiny hair.  Then we lost '18, '20, '22 .   

Is it more simply money - being outspent?

BTW,

I knew Kari Lake was a mistake..... :-(




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Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« Reply #1719 on: October 01, 2024, 07:48:19 AM »
Not a Congressional race, but so too was Robinson for Gov here in NC.   The TV ads against him are absolutely devasting.

Regarding Trump's responsibility as head of the ticket for helping or hurting Congressional races: I would point out that hard core Pro-Life abortion policies at the state level are having big political consequences.   6 weeks?!?  Seriously?!?

IMHO Trump has done a fine job of positioning himself on this issue-- IT IS A MATTER FOR THE STATES.  And if Reps in the States are tone deaf on this issue, that is not his fault.

Just saw an ad here in NC.  Woman spoke of having had five children and wanting another (i.e. not a cat lady) but something arose with the fetus/baby at 12 weeks and just not wanting the government involved in her decision.   Very effective ad!
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Robinson
« Reply #1720 on: October 01, 2024, 07:50:39 AM »
yes.
my God
talk of a November surprise.    :cry:

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Tester, Sheehy Montana Senate Debate
« Reply #1721 on: October 01, 2024, 03:13:15 PM »
https://www.c-span.org/video/?538830-1/montana-us-senate-debate

90 minutes.

This stuff is historic, but hard to take the time to follow all of them.

To me the issues are clear but when you have local public radio people framing the questions and the Dem opponent obscuring both sides of it, it's hard to make each point clear.

That said, no question Tim Sheehy is sharp and ready.  He will be a future star in the Senate.  Tester is clever, smooth, knowledgeable and experienced.  He tries to distance himself from an unpopular incumbent administration but there can be no doubt he voted with Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and the gang all his years in Washington.  He did NOT set himself apart as an independent in Washington, though he plays nothing but that card back home.
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PA Senate
« Reply #1722 on: October 02, 2024, 08:05:53 PM »
6 More Years of ‘Punxsutawney Bob’?
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Sen. Casey leads the polls, but Dave McCormick is putting up a real fight.
By Kyle Peterson
Oct. 2, 2024 1:05 pm ET


Who’s to blame for the $12 Philly cheesesteak that used to cost $9.75? That’s what Dave McCormick, Pennsylvania’s GOP nominee for Senate, wants voters to ponder as they go to the polls Nov. 5. Asked about inflation last week at a business roundtable in this Philadelphia suburb, Mr. McCormick argued it was “very predictable,” after Democrats spent trillions of dollars while also constraining fossil-fuel development. “Those policies,” he said, “have hurt working families the most.”

Sen. Bob Casey, the Democratic incumbent, has a different theory. “You see it with all kinds of food and grocery stores, people paying more, and these big corporations are laughing all the way to the bank,” Mr. Casey recently told an audience, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren by his side. In campaign videos, he inveighs against what he calls “greedflation” and “shrinkflation.” His Senate office issued a report this summer criticizing Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and other digital-media services for steadily increasing their prices, which he said was “streamflation.”

Mr. McCormick, sensing a comedic opening, is now telling voters to check out bobflation.com to see how prices of some classic Pennsylvania items have jumped in recent years, including for that Philly cheesesteak, as well as for a 6-inch hoagie from the Wawa convenience chain. “Bob Casey has no sense of how the economy works,” Mr. McCormick said at another suburban campaign stop. “That’s why he thinks the problem is greedflation, shrinkflation or these other things.”

But if Mr. Casey has the worse of the argument on inflation, he enjoys other advantages, including an 18-year incumbency in a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans, 44% to 40%. At the moment, he’s 4 to 5 points ahead, according to recent polling averages. Yet Mr. Casey won his past three races by 13 points, 9 points, and 17 points. Mr. McCormick’s ceiling appears to be rising, and the advertising will only get heavier.

For a GOP challenger, Mr. McCormick has an enviable résumé. He attended a public high school in Northeastern Pennsylvania; went on to West Point; earned a Bronze Star in the Gulf War; took a doctorate from Princeton; became CEO of FreeMarkets, a business-software firm in Pittsburgh; served the George W. Bush administration in various roles, including Treasury undersecretary; and became CEO of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates.

Democrats have portrayed him as a wealthy carpetbagger who kept a home in Connecticut and hadn’t voted in Pennsylvania for 15 years, until he decided to run for the Senate in 2022. That year Mr. McCormick narrowly lost the Republican primary to TV personality Mehmet Oz, who then lost to John Fetterman. Questions about Mr. Oz’s Pennsylvania residency were an issue, and Mr. Fetterman launched a cheeky petition to get him inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. That said, undecided voters also had other reasons to be skeptical of Mr. Oz, and Mr. McCormick’s Pennsylvania roots are less easily scoffed at.

At a rally with Donald Trump in the borough of Indiana last week, Mr. McCormick rattled off the towns where he was raised, baling hay and trimming Christmas trees, where “my pop-pop had a drugstore,” and where “my great-grandfather was a harness maker.” His mom, he said, was born in Punxsutawney, though its most famous resident is Phil the groundhog. “Punxsutawney reminds me of my opponent, Punxsutawney Bob,” Mr. McCormick added. “We only see him once every six years, right? He pops his head up, he starts to act like he’s been doing—he hasn’t been doing anything!”

This was at the first of two Trump rallies in Western Pennsylvania in a single week. Mr. Trump has another one this Saturday in Butler, where in July he was nearly assassinated. “This is a race between strength and weakness,” Mr. McCormick told the crowd in Indiana, after Mr. Trump invited him on stage. “I was standing there at Butler, 15 feet away. I saw you get shot. I saw you go down. And I saw you come up with your fist and say, ‘Fight, fight, fight!’ And that’s why we’re going to win.”

The two days after the Indiana rally Mr. McCormick spent working the suburban collar counties around Philadelphia, including at an event featuring Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, no favorite of Mr. Trump’s. “President Trump is an asset,” Mr. McCormick said in an interview. “He’s been a huge energizer for voters in Pennsylvania. But I’m running my own race.” One point of disagreement: Mr. Trump now wants to “restore” the federal deduction for state and local taxes, which his own 2017 law limited to $10,000. Mr. McCormick would keep that SALT cap.

The trick for Mr. McCormick is to galvanize rural Republicans who love Mr. Trump, while also getting reachable voters in and around the state’s two big cities. A Washington Post poll last month showed Mr. McCormick running ahead of Mr. Trump by 3 points in the Philly suburbs, while trailing Mr. Trump by 6 points across 19 counties in Western Pennsylvania, excluding Allegheny (Pittsburgh).

To compare, the last Republican to win a Senate seat in Pennsylvania was Pat Toomey, re-elected in 2016. Mr. Trump carried the state that year by 44,292 votes. Mr. Toomey’s margin was 86,690. He outperformed Mr. Trump’s vote share by 5.6 points in the Philly suburbs, while lagging Mr. Trump by 4.1 points in those 19 western counties. That math gets more difficult as the metro suburbs turn away from the MAGA GOP, even as Republicans are closing the state’s overall voter-registration gap.

This time Mr. Casey is the incumbent, and his name also happens to be an iconic Pennsylvania brand almost on par with Wawa. He’s a Senate three-termer (2007-present), after stints as state treasurer (2005-07) and auditor general (1997-05). His father, Bob Casey Sr., was governor (1987-95) and auditor general (1969-77). Many Pennsylvanians are used to filling in ovals for Bob Casey. Some surely still recall Casey Sr. as an antiabortion Catholic Democrat, who was kept offstage at his party’s 1992 presidential convention, shortly after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

Three decades later, Kamala Harris is saying that if Democrats win in November, they should override the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster rule and use a simple majority to pass a permissive national abortion law. Sen. Casey agrees. “The 60-vote rule has been an impediment to progress on a whole host of fronts,” he told CNN, including “women’s rights,” “voting rights,” “workers’ rights,” and “measures to reduce gun violence.”

So far the filibuster hasn’t been a big topic for these two candidates, but perhaps it’ll come up when they debate on Thursday, or in TV ads going after the incumbent’s reputation as a moderate. Mr. Casey “is a 98.6% vote for Biden-Harris,” Mr. McCormick said. “That is why Pennsylvania should be deeply afraid, because he is too weak and too liberal to stand up to a Democratic Party that is going off the deep end.”

Mr. Peterson is a member of the Journal’s editorial board.