https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...ucking-dems-n2662019

In a significant political shift that further cements the GOP’s growing blue-collar coalition, Rep. Rob Bresnahan (PA-08) has officially earned the support of the Teamsters, one of the largest and most influential labor unions in the country.

According to POLITICO, the Teamsters are backing Republicans up and down the ballot this cycle — and that includes Rep. Bresnahan, whose tireless work on behalf of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s working families is turning heads not just locally, but across the nation.

This isn't just a symbolic win — it’s a warning shot to Democrats. Working-class Americans are done waiting for empty promises from the Left. They want results. And Rep. Bresnahan is delivering.

The momentum behind Bresnahan’s pro-worker record was on full display during a recent visit from House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, who joined him in NEPA to showcase the impact of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” — a sweeping legislative victory that Bresnahan helped craft and champion.

The tour included a stop at i2M, a local manufacturing powerhouse, where the CEO praised the bill as “extraordinarily important to small- and medium-sized businesses like i2M.” And for good reason — this legislation isn’t just good politics. It’s good policy:

Protected 252,000 Pennsylvania jobs

Eliminated taxes on tips and overtime for PA-08 workers

Blocked a crushing 24% tax hike

Shielded small businesses from facing a devastating 43.4% tax rate

This is what commonsense, pro-family, pro-worker conservatism looks like in action. And it’s exactly why traditional labor allies like the Teamsters are breaking ranks with the Democrats and standing with Republican leaders like Rob Bresnahan.

While the Left obsesses over woke ideology, green mandates, and bureaucratic red tape, Republicans like Bresnahan are focused on cutting taxes, protecting jobs, and building a future for working families. The results speak for themselves — and so do the endorsements.

“The writing is on the wall: Democrats have left workers behind, while Rep. Rob Bresnahan and Republicans are working relentlessly to continue earning the trust of hardworking men and women in Pennsylvania," NRCC Spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole said.

And she’s right. The Democrat Party that once stood for the American worker is now the party of elite donors, climate radicals, and beltway bureaucrats. Meanwhile, Republicans are rebuilding the working-class coalition that built this country.

Bresnahan isn’t just talking the talk, he’s passing real legislation that puts workers and families first. That’s why union support is growing. That’s why voters are noticing. And that’s why the red wave in places like NEPA is just getting started.

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From the Left leaning New York Times. Long article you can read at the link, but here are a few nuggets.


The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis

The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows.

https://archive.ph/GtrQo#selection-501.0-505.74

The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls.
Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot.

That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from.

The stampede away from the Democratic Party is occurring in battleground states, the bluest states and the reddest states, too, according to a new analysis of voter registration data by The New York Times. The analysis used voter registration data compiled by L2, a nonpartisan data firm.

Few measurements reflect the luster of a political party’s brand more clearly than the choice by voters to identify with it — whether they register on a clipboard in a supermarket parking lot, at the Department of Motor Vehicles or in the comfort of their own home.
And fewer and fewer Americans are choosing to be Democrats.

In fact, for the first time since 2018, more new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats last year.

All told, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections in the 30 states, along with Washington, D.C., that allow people to register with a political party. (In the remaining 20 states, voters do not register with a political party.) Republicans gained 2.4 million.

There are still more Democrats registered nationwide than Republicans, partly because of big blue states like California allow people to register by party, while red states like Texas do not. But the trajectory is troublesome for Democrats, and there are growing tensions over what to do about it.

Democrats went from nearly an 11-percentage-point edge over Republicans on Election Day 2020 in those places with partisan registration, to just over a 6-percentage-point edge in 2024.

That swing helps to explain President Trump’s success last year, when he won the popular vote for the first time, swept the swing states and roared back to the White House.

“I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ but there seems to be no end to this,” said Michael Pruser, who tracks voter registration closely as the director of data science for Decision Desk HQ, an election-analysis site. “There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year.”

Consider this: In 2018, Democrats accounted for 34 percent of new voter registrations nationwide, while Republicans were only 20 percent. Yet by 2024, Republicans had overtaken Democrats among new registrants.

In six years, the G.O.P.’s share rose by 9 percentage points; the Democratic share dropped nearly 8 points.

Even though the media won't acknowledge or admit it, the country has swung towards conservatism, similar to the Reagan 80s. Gen Z support for Trump has taken the Dems by surprise, same with blacks and hispanics. Similar to the Carter years, America has been eating shit during the Biden presidency and got sick of it. And the current Dem "strategy" of doubling down on extreme leftist ideology is going to further alienate more voters.

I think a lot of it is how radical the green movement has gotten as well and the way that they, along with the “woke” types have completely taken over the party. Let’s face it, the green initiatives of the last 10 years have been incredibly harmful for the blue collar and middle class folks. From making energy costs unaffordable to promoting policies that kill good paying jobs in this country while doing nothing to implement restrictions on the world’s real polluters - China and India. I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it here again, the modern green movement has little to do with conservation and everything to do with wealth redistribution and one world governance. These policies have become so endemic that they can no longer be avoided by the middle class and they’re frankly tired of it. It appears that more and more people are coming around, to the point that even outlets like The NY Times can’t ignore it.

Dems do not have jobs and children.

MAYBE an exception for .gov employees.