Pennsylvania Statewide Discussion

[wbrocks67]

Very curious how this PASC race will end up on the GOP side.

5% in and Carluccio at 59%, McCollough at 41%. Carluccio is the more "sane" one even though she's still MAGA. McCollough though was the one who was going to throw away the 2020 election results.

[Babeuf]

Big wins for the left in Allegheny: Zappala likely loses to a reformer for DA, Innamorato (DSA) likely wins County Executive.

[wbrocks67]

Very curious how this PASC race will end up on the GOP side.

5% in and Carluccio at 59%, McCollough at 41%. Carluccio is the more "sane" one even though she's still MAGA. McCollough though was the one who was going to throw away the 2020 election results.

Wow, Carluccio might actually lose to the election denier. 52.2-47.8 now with tons of election day out.

[Roll Roons]

Carluccio looks likely to pull it out, especially with a lot left from Bucks and DelCo.

Btw, Franklin County, home of one Doug Mastriano, was effectively a tie.

[Roll Roons]

AP just called it for Carluccio.

[wbrocks67]

Pretty stunning Dem advantage in statewide turnout. Philly mayor and Allegheny stuff helped obviously, but the disparity is still pretty big.

Dem statewide turnout is at 1.04M, while Reps is at 821K. Dems is likely to grow a bit more as more Philly VBM come in.

To put in perspective, Dem turnout for the 2022 primary was 1.28M (GOP 1.35M). The fact that an off year election had that small of a dip is pretty incredible. I'll have to dive into the non-Philly county #s to see, because I feel like those will tell the true story.

[Arizona Iced Tea]

Is Carluccio a good candidate for the general?

[Duke of York]

Pretty stunning Dem advantage in statewide turnout. Philly mayor and Allegheny stuff helped obviously, but the disparity is still pretty big.

Dem statewide turnout is at 1.04M, while Reps is at 821K. Dems is likely to grow a bit more as more Philly VBM come in.

To put in perspective, Dem turnout for the 2022 primary was 1.28M (GOP 1.35M). The fact that an off year election had that small of a dip is pretty incredible. I'll have to dive into the non-Philly county #s to see, because I feel like those will tell the true story.

Democrats tend to do well in off year elections when Philadelphia has its mayoral and city council elections.

[wbrocks67]

Is Carluccio a good candidate for the general?

She's better than McCullough obviously for the GOP, but IIRC, she's also espoused some election denying rhetoric in the past, so I think there's still a lot that can be used against her.

[wbrocks67]

Montgomery County is just so bad for the GOP; it's been for a while but usually they still keep up with turnout % (they did in 2021), but this year, 31% of Dems showed up, vs only 24% of GOP.

[wbrocks67]

https://twitter.com/justin_sweitzer/status/1664250858312286208

[Gass3268]

After years of registration decline for Democrats in PA, it appears things are turning around in 2023.

https://twitter.com/blockedfreq/status/1663635163329306625?s=20

[NewYorkExpress]

Former Bucks County Solicitor Joe Khan has entered the Attorney General's race.

Former Bucks County Solicitor Joe Khan announced Wednesday that he will run in 2024 to be Pennsylvania’s attorney general.

Khan, a 47-year-old Democrat from Doylestown Borough, is a former prosecutor in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He says he wants to tackle corporate and political corruption as the state’s top prosecutor.

Khan joins former Auditor General Eugene DePasquale in the Democratic Primary. He enters the race with endorsements of one State Senator (Nikil Saval), and two State Representatives (Tarik Kahn (who happens to be his brother) and Joseph Hohenstein).

[Lambsbread]

Endorsed!

[Not Me, Us]

Has anyone announced for treasurer? It seems like Malcolm Kenyatta has the Auditor General primary in the bag, the Attorney General race might be the only interesting one this time.

[wbrocks67]

Has anyone announced for treasurer? It seems like Malcolm Kenyatta has the Auditor General primary in the bag, the Attorney General race might be the only interesting one this time.

which is pretty surprising, since Garrity should be the easiest target.

[wbrocks67]

From what I can tell, neither Garrity or DeFoor have announced their re-election plans yet. I fully expect both will run but seems weird they haven't said anything.

[VPH]

Former Bucks County Solicitor Joe Khan has entered the Attorney General's race.

Former Bucks County Solicitor Joe Khan announced Wednesday that he will run in 2024 to be Pennsylvania’s attorney general.

Khan, a 47-year-old Democrat from Doylestown Borough, is a former prosecutor in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He says he wants to tackle corporate and political corruption as the state’s top prosecutor.

Khan joins former Auditor General Eugene DePasquale in the Democratic Primary. He enters the race with endorsements of one State Senator (Nikil Saval), and two State Representatives (Tarik Kahn (who happens to be his brother) and Joseph Hohenstein).

It's pretty funny for an AG candidate to get endorsements from both Saval [one of the farthest left electeds in PA] and Hohenstein [who is not a conservadem but who is quite moderate on political/crime issues].

[NewYorkExpress]

State Representative Jared Solomon has entered the race for Attorney General.

A fourth Democrat has entered the race to be Pennsylvania’s next Attorney General.

State Representative Jared Solomon of Philadelphia says he is entering the crowded primary race. On Monday, his campaign website was updated with information regarding his candidacy.

...
Already in the Democratic race for Attorney General are former public defender Keir Bradford-Grey, former Bucks County Solicitor Joe Khan, and former Auditor General Eugene DePasquale.

York County District Attorney Dave Sunday is the only Republican who hsa publicly announced their intention to run for Attorney General.

[ctherainbow]

I swear if the Dem’s 2023 nominee for Commonwealth Court doesn’t get his ass out to the other 66 counties besides Philly, I’m gonna have an aneurysm.  Every single other one of the Dem statewide judicial candidates who are running this year have run statewide before, and thus have already done the statewide tour, but furthermore, they’ve also all taken the time to meet with local county parties and activists THIS cycle.  Meanwhile, Matt Wolf, the Commonwealth Court nom, has never run statewide before, so of all of them, he needs to do the most outreach work, and yet has done 0 outside of Philly and maybe a couple of the collar counties.

I’ll take entitled old white guys from the Philly machine who cost us statewide elections for $400, Alex.

It’s going to be really disappointing when he loses and we get stalled in our slow purpling of the extremely right wing Commonwealth Court.

[Senator Incitatus]

Anything going on in the mayoral race? I know it's not going to be competitive but it could nevertheless be interesting.

[Duke of York]

Anything going on in the mayoral race? I know it's not going to be competitive but it could nevertheless be interesting.

i think the margin will be what to watch.

[wbrocks67]

Planned Parenthood doing a 7-figure ad buy for Dems for Supreme Court race

https://www.penncapital-star.com/blog/planned-parenthoods-political-arm-ramps-up-ad-campaign-focused-on-pa-supreme-court-race/

Haven't seen much else though in terms of candidate spending

[wbrocks67]

Has anyone announced for treasurer? It seems like Malcolm Kenyatta has the Auditor General primary in the bag, the Attorney General race might be the only interesting one this time.

ask and you shall receive!

https://twitter.com/StephenJ_Caruso/status/1706641859076911476

[wbrocks67]

He also knows ball, rightfully tying her to 1/6:

https://twitter.com/PoliticsPA/status/1706659982387597570