If you look at his campaign ads, he ran as a Marine, pro-gun, pro-jobs no mention of his party. Most Democrats aren’t going to be able to pull that off.
Via Daily Caller:
Republicans suffered a serious defeat in the Pennsylvania special election Tuesday night.
While the results aren’t 100 percent official yet, it looks like Democrat Conor Lamb will walk away with an upset in the deep red district.
The tentative results are prompting a round of media predictions that 2018 is going to be a massive blue wave and that the special election was a referendum on Trump.
But that prognosis puts way too much of the blame on Trump and overlooks how Lamb managed to win a solid Republican district. The Democrat didn’t base his campaign around Trump as he remained rather muted on the subject of the president. In fact, Lamb struck a conservative-populist tone in his campaign.