NEWTOWN, Pa.—Pennsylvania’s Bucks County, which stretches along the Delaware River north of Philadelphia, has earned a reputation for unpredictable voting outcomes.
Recently dubbed an “ultimate suburban bellwether,” Bucks is a place where Democrats have long outnumbered Republicans. Yet pockets of the county’s blue-collar Democrats had no qualms about defecting to Republican Donald Trump’s camp because his opposition to career politicians resonated with them.
Many are still loyal to the former president’s “Make America Great Again” principles.
David Fiori, who was handing out Republican-slate flyers to voters outside a polling site at New Life Christian Church in Newtown, said Bucks County “is a cross-section of people who moved from New York because it’s too expensive,” as well as lifelong residents….}