Democrats are setting the stage in Pennsylvania for a fight against Trump and the GOP.
This weekend, U.S. Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat of California, will visit Allentown and Levittown as part of a broader effort for Democrats to reclaim the House of Representatives in 2026.
Allentown and Levittown are two critical areas for Democrats in the 2026 midterm election.
Representative Khanna was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He plans to utilize his connection to Pennsylvania during his visit to the battleground state in just a few days.
“Bucks County gave me my chance in life,” said Khanna. “I had a good public education. I got student loans to go to school and get a college education. I had teachers and people who believed in me, and I feel like this Republican budget, by taking away funding for education, taking away student loans, taking away funding for Medicaid, is really depriving the next generation of the chances I had, and I wanted to go to my hometown, Bucks County, and say that.”
The events are expected to draw crowds. They come a week after U.S. Senator Ruben Gallego, a Democrat of Arizona, also visited Bucks County to lay some of the groundwork for the 2026 midterms.
Earlier this month, U.S. Representative Chris Deluzio, a Democrat of Western Pennsylvania, held town halls with Bernie Sanders in Harrisburg and Bethlehem.
Following the town hall, Deluzio said, “People are mad at [Republicans], so I think it’s an important moment that the public has something to say here, and that leaders are meeting them where they are,” he said. “It’s never a bad time to make the case, and these Republican elected officials should be feeling some pressure from their constituents.”
Pennsylvania, a battleground state, has been a key focus in recent elections. Democrats are beginning to prioritize campaigning in the Commonwealth in an effort to reclaim the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026, and the White House two years later after President Trump’s second term in office ends.
Khanna said his focus now lies on winning back the House and pressuring vulnerable Republicans to vote against the GOP budget bill when it comes up for a vote on the House floor.
“If you look at my travel, it’s literally to red districts where we can either flip someone’s vote or flip that district,” he explained.
Khanna referenced Senator Ruben Gallego, Governor Josh Shapiro, Senator Cory Booker, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as some of the Democrats that are shaping “the national conversation.”
Bucks County voted for former President Joe Biden in 2020 and flipped to Trump this past year.
Maureen O’Toole, a spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee, referred to Khanna and Gallego as “extremists who champion far-left policies.”
