Pennsylvania also a warning to Democrats

 Salena Zito:

Voters in the Keystone State, as in Virginia, took Tuesday's election as an opportunity to rebut Democrats' overreach. Driven by the loudest voices in their national party toward issues of social justice, "intersectionality," and "climate justice," Democrats suffered for ignoring everyday issues such as inflation, crime, and education.

With mail ballots still pending, Republicans are poised to sweep all four of Pennsylvania's statewide judicial elections. They also made gains in municipal races.

In the collar counties surrounding Philadelphia, voters echoed the same dissatisfaction with Democrats that was displayed in the surprising results in neighboring New Jersey. This corrected some of the suburban losses that Republicans had experienced in Philly during the Trump years. In Bucks County, where Republicans have struggled to hold any local elected office in the last four years, kept the district attorney’s office in their column and picked up offices for sheriff and prothonotary. In Chester, where Republicans became extinct in row offices four years ago, the races were still close to call.

Here in Erie, a critically important bellwether county for next year's high-profile races for the U.S. House, Senate, and governor, voters chose the Republican candidate for county executive in a seat that has been held by Republicans only twice since 1978.

Down in southwestern Pennsylvania, which has been trending rightward since Democrats started shedding working-class voters in favor of an elite ascendant coalition around 2010, Republicans swept most row offices in the collar counties that surround Allegheny County and Pittsburgh.

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Democrats in Congress do not seem to be getting the message and are doubling down on an unpopular agenda that Pelosi and the leadership are pushing.  They keep doing things that make people want to vote against every Democrat on the ballot.