His Bucks County district seems like it should be a top-target and yet no one is running. It's not like NY-1 (Zeldin's seat) where you have two A-list recruits who want to run and are just sorting out which of them is going to jump in ahead of time so that there isn't a major primary battle between close allies. It's also not a district like AR-2 or OH-16 (or hell, even OH-1) that Democrats should really be targeting, but might not because it seems tough on paper. Fitzpatrick also isn't some sort of long-time incumbent like LoBiondo, so what's up with this district? Is this just a huge recruiting failure or is there something else going on that some of our PA posters could shed a light on?
Sadly, the local Dems in the Philly suburbs outside of a few select areas in the inner suburbs are petrified of their respective local GOP organizations. Typically in areas that have only recently trended Democratic, the voters are typically younger hence not as established in their respective communitues hence the Dems have weaker benches despite the fact they have voted Dem at the Presidential level. I live in such an area in Montgomery County.
Typically, the GOP has a stocked bench of good 'ol Irish Catholic boys in such Congressional and State Legislative seats while the Dems have to make due with much younger, weaker candidates who are less known in the community However, I'm wondering why despite Daylin Leach in PA 7 and that clown car race there no one is stepping up in PA 8.
