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Trump's persistent use of inflammatory rhetoric may never have become as troublesome as in Pennsylvania, where Republicans were already preparing to suffer casualties in some districts of the New House drawn before Shooter set on immigration massacred 11 faithful to the Pittsburgh Synagogue on Saturday.
On Monday night, at a meeting in a tavern near Philadelphia, supporters of Scott Wallace, a Democrat who competed in the most disputed House race, denounced Trump for his "cruelty." "and have repeatedly referred to the president's rhetoric about race and national identity. . Speaking to a compact crowd, former representative Patrick Murphy, a Democrat who represented the region, warned that "people who hate feel so encouraged to act accordingly."
The suburbs around Philadelphia were once a reliable republican bastion. But Shelley Howland, a Republican who attended the pro-Wallace event, said Trump represented a breaking point.
A proponent of the right to abortion and gun control, Ms. Howland voted two years ago for Hillary Clinton at the expense of Mr. Trump, but remained loyally Republican in congressional elections, supporting the Mr. Wallace's adversary, the representative Brian Fitzpatrick, who is currently seeking his second term. . She said that she would no longer support Mr. Fitzpatrick.
"This year, it will be a real ticket for the Democrats," said Howland, 65, lamenting: "All this right-wing movement, Steve Bannon at the White House, Trump at the White House."
Mr. Wallace, an investor whose grandfather served as vice-president, presented his campaign as an opportunity for Bucks County to repudiate a president who unleashed a "Pandora's box" in a dangerous social unrest. .
"The tone the president has given is absolutely toxic to the relationships between people of different faiths, different races and different sexual orientations," said Wallace.
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