‘We knew exactly who he was when we voted for him’

Published May 7, 2018 6:30pm ET



[The following is reprinted from The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics. Copyright © 2018 by Salena Zito and Brad Todd. Published by Crown Forum, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC]

Unlike the 3,832 Democrats in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, who changed their party registration to Republican, presumably so they could vote in the closed 2016 Republican primary, Ed Harry did not. He didn’t formally leave his party at the beginning of the election— but his eye did wander.

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