Alright, I'm Ryan Grimm and welcome to Deconstructed.

In this midterm, progressive Democrats have been complaining that the party hasn't done

enough to reach out to people on a more populist economic level, seating that ground instead

to Republicans.

And while that might be true in a lot of races that doesn't apply to the race being fought

in Northeast Pennsylvania, where incumbent Democrat Matt Cartwright is defending a Trump

voting seat against Jim Bognet, who is the first House candidate Trump endorsed in the 2022

cycle.

Cartwright who represents Joe Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania is a useful

case study for the potential of progressive populism because he's among the few Democrats

not to shy away from a boldly progressive agenda, yet he has managed to win the type

of working class voters bleeding out of the Democratic coalition.

And here's Bognet in the debate trying to use it against him.

Our seniors worked for their Medicare, they deserve their Medicare, John Federman

and Bernie Sanders are the two people he stands with for Medicare for all.

Now how Cartwright messages those progressive politics is telling, here's a major campaign

ad he released this week, which the campaign provided first to the intercept.

This is a great place to raise a family, but in order to do that, we need good jobs that

can lead to careers.

You know who understands this?

Matt Cartwright.

That's why he's helping to bring a new plant, creating thousands of jobs and cheaper

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