Posted on 04/24/2016 12:24:14 AM PDT by GonzoII
Jim Donnelly is a registered Republican who is disgusted. His lifelong party, he believes, has done little for anyone but the wealthy, the well-connected, and its own leaders.
"I'm a strong Republican and this is the worst I've ever seen it," said Donnelly, 73, a retired factory production manager who lives in Lansdale. "In Washington, D.C., and in Harrisburg, the Republicans are only looking out for themselves. I don't see any Republican I like except for Donald Trump - because he says it the way it is."
Donnelly has a lot of company in Pennsylvania.
For decades, the state has had a fairly consistent, predictably low-key GOP identity. But this year's presidential race is upending long-standing patterns, exposing a changing electorate demanding change.
Voter-registration data and polls suggest a wave of GOP disgruntlement among the blue-collar whites of the Philadelphia suburbs, places that not too long ago were populated by reliable so-called Country Club Republicans, the type who might normally gravitate toward Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Fewer college degrees and more economic woes instead have made such places fertile ground for the message, and the candidacy, of Trump.
Places like blue-collar Springfield, Delaware County, where slightly more than half of all residents lack a college degree and Republicans are 60 percent of registered voters. Or Warminster, Bucks County, where barely a third of residents have a high school diploma or some college, and nearly half, 45 percent, are registered Republican.
On the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders has similarly stoked leftist voter anger with his challenge to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. His middle-class-is-suffering message is playing well among the state's many millennials under 35.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
2 years ago Ted Cruz welcome illegal aliens who are often rapists, murders, and child molesters across the border with Glenn Beck. He’s no conservative.
If he had just said "People should move to where the jobs are", he could have saved himself some grief.
Sweetheart, you don’t have a link and excerpt to back up what you claim, but I do:
“We are not talking about positions he has taken years ago before he became a Republican. In 2013, conservatives were fighting for dear life to oppose open borders, while Trump was not only supporting the Dream Act, but echoing the liberal politically correct talking points behind it. In August of 2013, he reportedly told a group of illegal aliens, “You have convinced me” of the need to pass the Dream Act.”
more: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/trumps-questionable-political-history
“How Scalia and Ted Cruz Saved the 2nd Amendment”
Care about the SECOND AMENDMENT, folks? I hope so.
Ted Cruz with Glenn Beck greeting and distributing aid to illegals just across the border (Scroll down to see Cruz):
Yes, so many, even “Republicans” like Mrs. Bill and Obama too!
I want somebody as good as Cruz, who is 100% pro-life,
abortion will be just as legal under Cruz as it would be under Clinton; why are you tossing abortion out there as a defining election issue...?
it is not within the purview of the presidency to abolish abortion, so, any distinctions between Trump an Cruz are meaningless, as long as neither are openly promoting unfettered access...
OH LOOK! The Trump Derangement Syndrome troll can’t seem to get on Free Republic after yesterday’s historic Trump wins!
God you are pathetic. LOL
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