In 2022, Pennsylvania Is Bizarro Georgia

The major elections in the two states are mirror images of each other.

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From left: Mehmet Oz, John Fetterman, Raphael Warnock, Herschel Walker

Andrew Kelly, Quinn Glabicki, Jessica McGowan, Dustin Chambers/Reuters

If you’ve been following this year’s elections in Pennsylvania and Georgia, you might be feeling a bit of whiplash. Time and again, each party is making arguments in one state while being on the opposite side of similar arguments in the other state. The two have become bizarre mirror images of one another.

The most obvious similarities are between Herschel Walker, the embattled Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, and John Fetterman, the embattled Democratic Senate nominee in Pennsylvania. Each man represents a sort of celebrity hope for outreach: Republicans running a black sports hero, Democrats running a hulking, tattooed small-town mayor who dresses like he’s working-class.

Dan McLaughlin

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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