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I'm voting Republican. All Republican,” Torma says flatly.

Many of her neighbors appear to feel the same way. In the deep-blue 12th Congressional District, where Torma lives, the race between Democratic state Rep. Summer Lee and Republican borough council President Mike Doyle is shockingly close for a seat that has not been held by the GOP in decades.

Crime, drug use and homelessness have something to do with that. A sizable homeless camp has emerged just down the street from Torma’s restaurant. Last month, two innocent women standing at a bus stop in the area got caught in gunfire and were killed. Torma calls the uncertainty of what will happen next “unbearable” at times.

“I am not going to give up, my parents came here for freedom and opportunity, that is why I am voting Republican,” said Torma, whose parents immigrated to the US from Hungary in 1956. “They offer that choice, the Democrats have failed us.”

(Sounds good to me!)

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