New York Times: “An alternative explanation for why John Fetterman did so much better than Mr. Biden in red counties, besides winning some former Trump supporters, is that a different spectrum of voters turned out in 2022 than during the presidential race two years ago. Mr. Fetterman, who campaigned aggressively for more than a year in the rural counties before his stroke under the banner ‘every county, every vote,’ may have inspired inconsistent voters who still leaned Democratic to turn out for him.”
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