Trump carried all five of the counties Fetterman visited on that day in early May - Clinton, Potter, Tioga, Bradford and Northumberland - and he did so with at least 65 percent of the vote. In doing so, Fetterman didn’t just attend to the rural, he attended to what he often called the “ruby red” parts of the Keystone State. Ten days later, in spite of a stroke that hospitalized him just a few days before the primary, Fetterman carried all 67 counties in the Democratic primary. I’ve done it before and I’m ready to do it again.Įvery County, Every Vote 💯- John Fetterman April 25, 2022

It takes a 67 county Democrat to flip this seat 🔵. I don’t know who needs to hear this but… No County will ever be too small or too 🔴. On a single Saturday in early May, for example, he visited five counties in north-central Pennsylvania, part of the state’s “rural T” - the vast area which form a big “T” on the map between the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh metro areas and north to the New York state line. Senate in Pennsylvania’s May primary with a robust 59 percent of the vote and currently holds the lead in general election polling.įetterman lived up to his “Every County, Every Vote” slogan. That candidate is John Fetterman, who secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Then, he did something really remarkable: He showed up again.

As most candidates for state-wide office continue to put all their eggs in the urban and suburban voter basket, rural Democratic organizers and operatives from North Carolina to Texas to Arizona to New York complain about state party failures to enhance their rural infrastructure and initiatives. Indeed, few Democratic campaigns seem to have tried to claw back rural ground, with many candidates appearing simply to cede the rural vote to the MAGA crowd. The party’s share of the rural vote had been shrinking for decades even before Donald Trump arrived on the scene, deftly tapping into rural and working-class discontent and dragging levels of Democratic support to new lows in nonmetropolitan places.Įven as Trump’s popularity has waned among some demographics, Democrats have shaved little off the GOP’s rural margins. It’s no secret that Democrats have a rural problem. professor of law at the University of California, Davis. She is writing a book about what the experience of migrating from the working class to the chattering class can teach us about contemporary political divisions.

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