Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) agreed that her party was not able to “break through” with its platform earlier in the election season.
As voters head to the polls on Tuesday, Houlahan admits they are split in Pennsylvania. The state largely voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in past years, including 2020, but flipped for Trump during his 2016 bid. The state has 19 electoral votes, which can give a candidate their lead. Houlahan acknowledged some Pennsylvanian voters “feel forgotten.”
“I feel frustrated because I feel as though, somehow, all of us have not been able to break through and communicate all of the decent and good things happening under Democratic control with a Democratic White House and all of the really amazing things that happened as a consequence of the Biden administration and hopefully the Harris administration,” Houlahan said on CNN Monday.
“So I think there really is a disconnect we are still struggling with to try to communicate really what the Democratic platform is about and about the harmfulness of the Republican platform,” Houlahan added.
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Both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris spent some of their final hours on the eve of Election Day in Pennsylvania to rally the vote.
The state reported 14 counties received challenges seeking to invalidate mail-in ballots, citing evidence showing voters moved overseas or had submitted a change-of-address request with the U.S. Postal Service. However, neither is reason enough to make a voter ineligible.