Daily News | Here’s what’s next for the Tuesday with Toomey demonstrators who protested the senator for 6 years
, the protesters say they’re looking forward to having their Tuesday afternoons back, and to welcoming Democratic Sen.-elect John Fetterman. But leaders of the group, formed primarily by women, also say the experience has driven them and many of their fellow protesters to a level of heightened civic engagement that will last beyond Toomey’s tenure.
“A lot of people said they had never spoken in front of a large group before. I had never canvassed before, and now I realize it’s important. ... I had never visited a senator’s office before. I had to Google it,” said Bandy, of Philadelphia. “Now my friends actually ask me stuff.” The group formed almost immediately after the 2016 election, when so much of Philadelphia reeled from Donald Trump’s victory. Toomey, who had kept his distance from Trump during his own reelection campaign that year,” whether Trump or Hillary Clinton won. Some of the liberals who saw those ads were determined to hold him to that promise.
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