{"id":1584843,"date":"2022-08-02T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584843"},"modified":"2022-08-02T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:20:08","slug":"pennsylvania-dems-are-switching-to-republicans-by-the-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-dems-are-switching-to-republicans-by-the-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Dems Are Switching to Republicans by the Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-dems-are-switching-to-republicans-by-the-thousands%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584843&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>Thousands of Pennsylvania Democrats switched their voter registration in the first half of the year to become Republicans, the <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette <\/em><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/politics-state\/2022\/08\/01\/pa-voter-registration-trends-democrats-leaving-party-joining-republican-shift-senate-governor-races-oz-fetterman-mastriano-shapiro\/stories\/202207310088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More than 8,100 Democrats changed their voter registration to Republican in the state&#8217;s western Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Beaver, Washington, and Westmoreland counties, according to Pennsylvania Department of State data, while less than a third of that number switched from Republican to Democrat. Across the entire Keystone State, more than 38,000 Democrats switched parties this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A blue exodus has taken place across the United States in the last year. As gas and food prices have skyrocketed under the Biden administration, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/blue-exodus-more-than-a-million-democrats-switch-to-republican-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>more than a million voters<\/span><\/a><span> across 43 states have left the Democratic Party and registered as Republicans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Washington County Republican Party chair Dave Ball told the <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em> life-long Democrats are switching parties because they are displeased with the Biden administration. The president\u2019s approval rating hit a record low of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/study-in-contrast-biden-approval-hits-all-time-low-trump-approval-nears-all-time-high\/\"><span>37 percent<\/span><\/a> last month<span>, according to <\/span><i><span>RealClearPolitics<\/span><\/i><span>\u2018s<\/span><span>\u00a0polling data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think the prevailing mood is: It\u2019s OK to be a Republican,&#8221; Ball said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Pennsylvania Democrats switched their voter registration in the first half of the year to become Republicans, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.\u00a0 More than 8,100 Democrats changed their voter registration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}