Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary, originally scheduled for April 28, will instead take place today, June 2. This year, Pennsylvania never had the chance to become the pitched battleground that it was four years ago. In 2016, the insurgent Sanders campaign swept a number of counties in rural and de-industrialized parts of the state before ultimately losing to Hilary Clinton, thanks in large part to her command over more affluent Democratic voting blocs in and around large cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Sanders won some of his most significant victories in Central Pennsylvania, where generations of extractive industry and state neglect have left hundreds of thousands of people poor and jobless. Trump swept the state during the general election that year, easily carrying Central Pennsylvania and violating the “Blue Wall” that Democratic elites felt certain would deliver the White House to Clinton.

In anticipation of the 2020 general election, elite Democrats in Pennsylvania rallied around the slogan “Vote Blue No Matter Who,” and even prominent progressives like Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman (who broke ranks with other state Democrats to endorse Sanders in 2016, and who Sanders stumped for in 2018) declined to voice support for the democratic socialist. For organizers on the ground, however, the Sanders campaign represented a precious opportunity to continue building progressive, social-democratic politics in a part of the country that now skews heavily conservative, but was once a hotbed for labor militancy.