Nearly two months after a Republican presidential candidate won Pennsylvania for the first time since 1988, Democrats Gov. Tom Wolf and Sen. Bob Casey find themselves threatened in a state where their party needs to reconstruct itself after a devastating blow.

Marcel Groen, the state’s Democratic party chair, said Democrats “need to rebuild the state party from the ground up,”

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