“I'm not leaving the Democratic Party,” the late President Ronald Reagan famously said. “The Democrats left me.” Although President Reagan left office in 1962, more and more Americans today would share his sentiments. For example, the #WalkAway (from the Democrats) campaign was founded in 2018 by disaffected liberal Brandon Straka. But six years later, has that walk turned into a run?
So we might wonder when we see news of a 103 percent increase in voters leaving the Democratic Party in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
However, this only reflects national trends. In fact, “Why I Left the Democratic Party” has become a relatively common headline. Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat for more than 20 years, wrote one such piece in 2022. She was later joined by North Carolina Congresswoman Tricia Cotham and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, to name two. Why did even liberal commentator Ana Kasparian, co-host of the radical left-wing news show Young Turks, abandon the Democratic Party this year?
Journey from rationalization to reason
As for Pennsylvania, her mother, Beth Ann Rozica, likely reflects the defection of many of the state's Democrats. And she joined Fox & Friends First in August to explain her departure. Related to Fox News:
“I think the economy is huge, and I think there are a lot of school issues for parents across Pennsylvania,” Rosica told co-host Carly Shimkus. “It's just scary to see what's happening.” .
Be aware that many parents have been outraged by the radical left-wing ideology that has infiltrated schools in recent years. Demonizing our Founders and our country is common in today's educational settings, and as a result, patriotism among young people is plummeting. Racially divisive pedagogy is also prevalent, for example, teaching about “white privilege” and critical race theory. Additionally, there is sexual degeneration, depraved “sex education” and child abuse known as the “transgender” agenda.
Returning to Fox, he continued:
“All of these policy failures have only resulted in real academic losses.”
Rosica said many parents are “disgusted and disgusted by what has happened here over the past two and a half years” due to inflation and rising gas prices.
… “As a former Democrat for 34 years before the pandemic, I too thought the Democratic Party was really focused on the people they pretended to support,” Rosica said.
She explained that she has dedicated her career to helping families in underserved communities get the resources they need to succeed, something that Democrats have always supported. That's what I was claiming.
“What I've seen throughout the pandemic is that the Democratic Party has basically abandoned all of those people,” Rosica said. “And that's why I left the party. Or as I like to say, the party really left me…”
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Rosika concluded, “I think more people are really starting to understand what she has.” That's no joke either. Consider what Newsweek magazine wrote about the residents of the Keystone State:
The data reports a notable change in party registration, showing that Pennsylvania's Democratic Party has seen a 103 percent increase in members leaving the party this year compared to last year.
In 2023, 19,321 Pennsylvania voters changed their registration from Democratic to “Other,” and 36,341 voters switched from Democratic to Republican. Overall, 55,662 registered Democrats in the state left the party.
This year, according to data released by the state, 51,937 registered Democrats changed their affiliation to “other” and 61,126 switched to Republican, for a total of 113,063 people to leave the party.
On the other hand, the Republican Party has seen a significant number of members leave the party, with 29,038 registered Republicans changing their affiliation in 2023 (13,196 to “Other” and 15,842 to Democratic Party). This year, 48,702 Republicans changed parties, including 24,046. 24,656 people switched to “Other” and became Democrats, an increase of about 67% in the number of Republicans who left the party.
And many of the people who are voting with their feet, so to speak, are also voting with their pocketbooks. The Economic Times points out that:
Most voters cite dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party's stance on economic issues, inflation, and policy direction as reasons for abandoning the Democratic Party. The highest defection rates are in suburban and rural areas of the state, where a growing number of former Democratic voters are concerned about government spending and regulatory action. This comes at a perfect time, as Pennsylvania remains a battleground state for the 2024 presidential election.
Bleeding voters around the world
Democrats aren't just losing white rural and suburban voters. As KNX News Radio reported last week, “The percentage of Black voters likely to support Democratic presidential candidates has fallen to 78% in 2020, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll. “This is down from 90% of the time.”
The conventional wisdom is that if this is reflected in the actual votes, the Democratic Party will be defeated. Any ideas? They rely on getting close to or above 90 percent of the black vote to win.
Additionally, as the Daily Signal reported on Monday,
Harris leads former President Donald Trump by 14 points among Hispanic voters, according to the latest NBC/Telemundo poll. But this is the smallest margin for Democrats in more than a decade.
Every other Democratic candidate for president since 2012 had an advantage of at least 36 points and ultimately won the Hispanic vote by a similarly large margin.
Given this, is it any wonder that Democrats are importing illegal aliens instead of Americans? If you can't get the people to change the government (to their liking), just change the people.
But there's the issue of changing votes. Because while the above reality should bode well for Republicans come November 5, it fails to account for a key factor: voter fraud. After all, losing hundreds of thousands of voters is not the same as losing hundreds of thousands of “votes,” especially today.
