The Philadelphia Inquirer
For about an hour Wednesday night, the crunchy green artificial turf of the big indoor practice field at Newtown Athletic Club in Bucks County offered a kind of a safe space for Kathy Barnette to revel in her new status as sudden-shock co-front-runner in Pennsylvania’s GOP U.S. Senate primary, in the election that could tip the balance of power in Washington in 2023. Barnette, that kind of vague B-list Fox News pundit who’s never held elected office, basked in the loud whoops from about 400 Republican faithful when she was introduced at a panel of six contenders that also included her top riva…