Commentary
MONONGAHELA, PENNSYLVANIA—Last September, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) told then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that if Republicans were going to be successful in gaining the majority in the House in November, they needed to announce their pledge to voters in the heart of America.
Reschenthaler, a member of the Main Street Caucus, a group of over 70 pragmatic conservative House members that grew out of the Republican Main Street Partnership, said it was surprisingly easy to convince him to have 40-plus members come to speak to the voters in a town whose name few could pronounce, even though there is no direct, easy accessibility from Washington, D.C., the Pittsburgh airport or the turnpike….