That may understate the problem for Democrats. Kamala Harris has a bigger problem than Pennsylvania, and it has become apparent in the stall Democrats have seen in her momentum.
But Pennsylvania may have the biggest manifestation of the problem that Politico identifies, and identity lies at the heart of it — although not in the context Harris prefers:
Biden’s local ties and cultural roots helped lift him to victory in 2020 here in Lackawanna County, the population hub of increasingly red northeastern Pennsylvania. In this most Catholic part of the swing state with the second-highest Catholic population, Biden ran ahead of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 pace, enabling his narrow, one percentage point statewide victory.
But now, as Democrats battle for the state with Kamala Harris as the nominee, their chances of winning in the region or performing well enough there to carry the state…
