Biden helps Democrats rebound a bit in Southwestern Pennsylvania, but his party continues to take hits down-ballot

The results of the 2020 election show that Joe Biden, bolstered by his “Scranton Joe” persona, stanched the bleeding for the Democratic presidential ticket in blue-collar precincts of southwestern Pennsylvania, a region where voters had moved sharply toward Donald Trump in 2016. But it’s equally clear that Biden wasn’t able to do much to help his party further down the ballot.