Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D-PA) announced Friday that he will hold a rally in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the state’s fourth-largest county and a key purple region that could ultimately determine the outcome of his Senate race against Dr. Mehmet Oz in November.
Bucks County includes multiple pro-union, mid-tier townships and swathes of rural farmland. The region has trended blue in recent presidential elections (voting for both President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2020 and 2016, respectively) but continues to elect Republicans to local government and the House of Representatives.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Friday that “tens of thousands of people” voted for both Biden and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) in 2020, providing Biden the fifth-largest margin of victory over former President Donald Trump en route to his 81,000-vote victory in the state.
“We’re kind of like a microcosm of the rest of the state,” Bucks County GOP Chairman Pat Poprik told the Inquirer. “We have really conservative, really liberal, and moderates, so the way we go is kinda the way the rest of the state goes.”
Democratic strategist Dan McCormick, who specifically tracks Bucks County, predicted the area could be even more fruitful for Democrats than in years past following the Supreme Court’s landmark overturning of Roe v. Wade this past summer. Democratic women outregistered all Republicans to vote in the county following the leaked decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in May by more than 2-to-1, and the county further boasts an additional 80,000 independent voters.
Sunday will be Fetterman’s first trip to the county and follows on the heels of multiple rallies by Oz. Josh Shapiro, the state’s attorney general and the Democratic nominee for governor, and state Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, have also visited Bucks in recent weeks.
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Sunday’s rally also marks a departure from Fetterman’s usual campaign schedule, who has favored smaller, private events over large-scale rallies following his stroke just before the primary. Fetterman, a vocal progressive, will likely tout his union ties and Biden’s recent executive action on federal marijuana policy during his Sunday speech.
