Pennsylvania voters are leaving the Democratic Party over the Southern Border and inflation.
Republicans are nearing Democrats in Pennsylvania when it comes to voter registration. With the registration deadline for the Keystone State’s primary election just passed, GOP voter rolls have increased in every county while the number of registered Democrats declined in nearly every county.
Pundits point the registration shift to radical policies adopted by national Democrats, such as gender ideology policies and their refusal to secure the southern border, for pushing Pennsylvania’s blue-collar voters towards the GOP. Recent polling in the state, however, shows inflation, crime, and the economy as the top three issues concerning voters.
When Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro announced in 2023 the state would begin automatically registering voters, Democrats presciently warned it could actually benefit former President and presumptive 2024 GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Reporting earlier this year made a perilous point for Keystone Democrats: the number of voters the party has lost is more than double the margin in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020. But victory is not automatic for Republicans. Alarm bells rang over GOP voter registration surges in 2022, yet Democrat John Fetterman easily won the Senate race while Shapiro bested his Republican opponent by nearly 15 points. The message for Republicans should be to not take anything for granted.
Regardless, this phenomenon is not isolated to Pennsylvania. Nevada and North Carolina, also swing states, are seeing a decline in Democrat registrations from their 2020 numbers.
Republicans’ gains in voter registration in Pennsylvania and elsewhere must have Democrats and their allies in the liberal media worried, as headlines have recently declared the automatic voter registration not benefiting either party and Vice President Kamala Harris visiting Philadelphia to hype Democrats’ voter registration efforts.
