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Welcome to the PA Political Digest newsletter. I’m your guide here, Christopher Nicholas, a veteran GOP political consultant & a recognized expert on PA's politics and its demographics. I also serve as a political analyst for ABC27 News in Harrisburg, and appear weekly as the Republican analyst on This Week in Pennsylvania, (TWIP) the only state-wide show on PA’s politics and policy, which airs each Sunday across our 6 TV markets, via: PHL17, KDKA+, ABC27, WBRE, WTAJ and WJET.
As for background, I grew up in Bucks County, PA, graduated from American University in D.C. and have lived in suburban Harrisburg since 1990. After college and before settling in central PA and later starting my firm, Eagle Consulting Group, Inc., I did what I refer to as my campaign graduate school on the road: running congressional and state senate campaigns in Michigan, Illinois, New Jersey, Indiana and NJ again. This year marks my 40th year as a working GOP political consultant.
And last year I dipped …