The thing “against” Smith is that he was a democrat only 2 years ago. He’s an “Obama Republican” in that the Obama party sent his screaming for the exits. The “establishment” endorsed another guy in the primary.
But, for a guy with no chance of winning and no name recognition, he’s doing pretty darn good.
i guess given where he came from, being a dem makes sense. those are my roots there. St James the Greater Church and elementary school in Apollo, PA, Armstrong Co. is where i went to church and attended school. No one had $ there, there were no rich kids in that school. The fact that this guy grew up there and made it is astounding to me.