Wall Street Journal Profiles Kennett Square Mayor in Feature on Political Realignment

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Kennett Square Mayor Matt Fetick.

Voters here in the battleground state of Pennsylvania are increasingly shifting alliances and moving further apart along the lines of worker occupation, write Tarini Parti and Aaron Zitner for The Wall Street Journal.

This is a part of a wider, national political realignment that is seeing white, working-class voters migrate toward the Republican Party, while voters with white-collar jobs move more toward Democrats.

Kennett Square Mayor Matt Fetick is among the growing number of suburban voters who have decided to leave the Republican Party. He is now planning to vote for Joe Biden.

Fetick, 50, grew up in a conservative environment with a politically active mother who was a canvasser for President Ronald Reagan.

But through his work both as mayor and in real estate services, he has gotten to meet people from diverse backgrounds and different ideologies. He started to question the GOP’s positions on various issues, including immigration and tax cuts. In fact, he believes the cuts were purposefully skewed toward the wealthy under President Donald Trump.

“The party that is claiming to be the party of morals and values elected somebody who has none,” he said.

Read more about Matt Fetick in The Wall Street Journal here.

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