In a story today, *The New York Times* highlighted Bob Casey’s recent transformation into an outspoken member of “the resistance.”
The Times notes that despite President Trump’s win in Pennsylvania last November, Casey is moving farther to the left:
“Mr. Casey is not behaving like a senator approaching a re-election race next year in a state Mr. Trump carried, erasing any expectation that vulnerable Democrats would edge toward Mr. Trump en masse and distinguishing himself from some more reticent colleagues.
“Nor is Mr. Casey behaving, according to some friends and supporters, entirely like himself — or, at least, the iteration they had come to expect during his even-tempered decade in Congress under presidents not named Trump.”
Former Democrat Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell warns that Casey may be alienating his supporters with his increasingly hostile rhetoric:
“Edward G. Rendell, the former governor who won the job after defeating Mr. Casey in a 2002 primary, said Mr. Casey’s heightened outspokenness was not politically foolproof.
“’You can say that Bob Casey is doing this at some political risk to himself,’ Mr. Rendell said, adding that he believed Mr. Casey’s ‘evolution’ in tone reflected a genuine anger at the Trump administration. ‘He always was a Democrat who ran well with moderates and even some reasonable conservatives. Is he throwing that away by being so vocal and emphatic on these issues? Well, maybe so.’”
While Pennsylvanians may not appreciated Casey’s lurch to the left, Democrats in Washington sure do!
“‘He’s one of my favorites,’ Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said of Mr. Casey, sounding like a teacher at a parents’ conference. ‘That quiet tone shouldn’t fool anybody.'”
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