Her platform and positions are loved by the folks on the ground here.... She absolutely owned BOTH debates..
As I said elsewhere she called out both Oz and McCormick for their businesses being involved in the WEF... Tell me one other candidate anywhere even talking about that?
She absolutely bitch slapped Oz on abortion.
The reason she’s surging is, she actually is a conservative.. at least in her stated positions.... and she’s quite capable of articulating her positions.
Oz and McCormick were annointed by the powers that be, and have campaigned largely by spending cash on ads, and meeting with the party elites and connections.
Kathy’s been actually pounding the pavement meeting and talking with anyone and everyone... the press in this state that have been covering her state she is without question the most accessible and responsive candidate running.
Basically you have the party pushing 2 guys that can’t hunt... A slimeball named Oz, and a Wall Street guy named McCormick. Both of which have no political base in PA, have never held office before, but have been annointed by those on high that they shall be the candidate... Think Jeb in 2016...
The electorate themselves, aren’t buying or going along with it.... Even before the Debates when most voters didn’t knwo who Barnette was, Oz and McCormick weren’t going anywhere, both stuck in around 20% all cycle..
The official line from the “party” is they cant because they were attacking each other the whole time so no one could get ahead, which is BS... the reason neither of them got anywhere is because the electorate doesn’t want or trust EITHER OF THEM.. pure and simple.
Yet, the same powers that be are trying to sell that these are the only people who can win in the fall... people who can’t get republican voters to support them... yet they are going to be able to take out a VERY STRONG Democrat candidate who’s actually has a basis of true political support here... its an insane hypothesis to put forward...
Oh, ONLY OZ can win in the fall.. or ONLY McCormick can win in the fall. its nonsense.
Fetterman is a STRONG candidate, and he’s an imposing figure, neither McCormick nor Oz is going to stand out in any memorable way against him. The only way either one of them can win is if the Demcrat brand is so damaged by Biden and the economy that a ham sandwich would win as long at it had an R beside its name.
Barnette on the other hand, if she handles herself the way she has been will not get lost in Fetterman’s shadow, because she is anything but a “typical generic R”. She’s not wishy washy and she’s not trying to walk some tightrope like the Rove era republican party... We’ve been there and done that, don’e need any more of that.. oh don’t stand up for anything so you don’t offend anyone.
Barnette offers the clearest ideological contrast we can get this fall.. Will she crash and burn? Maybe, but so too may Oz and McCormick.. it’s insane to claim that can’t happen to them, NEITHER one has ever ran for a political office before. Barnette on the other had, while certainly no pro, has run and actually outperformed Trump in the PA-4 election in 2020. And in the 2022 cycle she’s actually the only one speaking directly to voters... and it shows.
Glad to hear all the positives since there is a full on attack on her by all the usual suspects. Hannity & Greg Kelly have become unhinged & foaming-at-the-mouth rabid RINOs where Barnett is concerned.
You are wrong about Mastriano.
Mastriano was elected to serve as the Senator for Pennsylvania’s 33rd District in May 2019, which includes all of Adams County, most of Franklin County and parts of Cumberland and York Counties.