Daily News | Pat Toomey didn’t change in his 12 years as a senator. The GOP did.
“When you have empowered the extreme, and undermined the moderates, don’t be surprised when the extreme goes in directions that are even more extreme than you are,” said J.J. Balaban, a Democratic strategist who worked on Joe Sestak’s 2010 campaign against Toomey. “I look at his legacy as unquestionably swinging Republican politics, and Pennsylvania Republican politics, to the right.”
Toomey says that while compromise is sometimes necessary, his goal was advancing the most conservative economic agenda possible, including through primary challenges. His focus on fiscal policies with a business-like demeanor twice won close races in a swing state. He’s the most electorally successful Republican in recent Pennsylvania history, Borick said. But much of the GOP has gone in a different direction, as evidenced by the party’s nomination of the election-denying Doug Mastriano for governor this year .
When he won a Senate seat, he was quickly appointed to a major committee on debt reduction, a plum position for anyone, let alone a freshman, and a sign of quick influence on fiscal issues.
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