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Four Democrats have lined up to take a shot at a seat in bright red Republican territory in Western Pennsylvania, hoping to replicate Conor Lamb's working class appeal that carried him to an upset win last month in a similar district. The road to a seat in the U.S. House won't be easy for the Democratic ...
The map placed Lamb's home community, Mt. Lebanon, in the 17th Congressional District, where he and Ray Linsenmayer of McCandless Township will face each other in the May 15 Democratic primary. Elizabeth Tarassi of Sewickley Heights announced she is suspending her campaign. The Democratic ...

Those running in the redistricted 14th Congressional District in the upcoming primary are positive that the updated district is winnable. In January, the state Supreme Court struck down the state congressional district map and adopted a remedial map in February. Republicans in the state filed challenges in ...
Ian Todd, resident of Sauk Rapids and a DFL candidate for Minnesota's 6th congressional district, is holding five town halls in five days this week in response to the call by March for Our Lives organizers for representatives to host a town hall on Saturday, April 7. The town hall on April 7 requested by March ...
I am humbled and flattered with the outpouring of support from people in Montclair, my home town in Morris County and all over New Jersey's 11th Congressional District – from those who identify as Republicans, Democrats, Independents, liberals and conservatives – people of all political persuasions.
Meanwhile, Lamb is facing a brief tenure as U.S. Rep. for the 18th Congressional District. This, as a statewide redistricting fight promises to replace Pennsylvania's existing congressional map — and with it Pennsylvania's existing congressional districts — in time for the May primary. The 18th District in its ...

The report projects that Democrats would need to win the national popular vote for congressional districts by a nearly 11 percentage point margin over ... by Republicans alleging that Maryland's former Democratic governor and legislature unconstitutionally gerrymandered a congressional district to their ...
Eighteen candidates are vying for a U.S. House seat in central Ohio that Republicans have held for 35 years and Democrats now see as competitive. Democrat Conor Lamb's razor-thin victory earlier this month in a Pennsylvania congressional district that heavily supported GOP President Donald Trump is ...
The Congressional district map that Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional bore "many of the hallmarks of a particularly aggressive seat-maximizing gerrymander," while its replacement is fairer and more competitive, according to a new think tank report. But gerrymanders remain in force in ...
The Democratic Party has a majority of registered voters in each of these Congressional Districts. There are no challengers from the more progressive wing of the party taking on the center to center-left incumbents. My assumption was that I'd find a bunch of minor GOP functionaries and a smattering of ...
A forum for the candidates running for the Democratic nomination in the Sixth Congressional District will be held Tuesday, April 10, in Wayland. Andy Dominianni, a news anchor at WWMT-TV, will moderate the forum to introduce the community to the candidates in the Aug. 2018 primary. The forum will be at ...
Under the new districts, all of Lebanon County will be part of the 9th Congressional district, along with Schuylkill, Columbia and Carbon counties and large portions of Berks, Montour, Luzerne and Northumberland counties. Currently, congressional districts split Lebanon County, with the northern and ...
Rosen Gonzalez, one of eight Democrats seeking the party's nomination in August, made the comment during a Tuesday evening forum for the women seeking to represent Florida's 27th congressional district. The event was moderated by Nancy Ancrum, editor of the Miami Herald Editorial Board, which ...
LOCK HAVEN — When Clinton County became part of the 12th Congressional District following the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's February redistricting decision, many residents were thrown into a state of confusion. Who was their representative? What would this mean for the upcoming congressional ...
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, announced Wednesday it was opening a field office in Washington's 8th District, as well as in Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
In a case related to congressional district boundary lines drawn in the eastern seaboard state of Maryland, the justices are hearing complaints Wednesday from Republicans that Democrats set boundaries with the specific goal of defeating an incumbent Republican congressman in his re-election bid in ...
But it now looks as though Montgomery County's newly drawn Fourth Congressional District could just as easily go to a 68-year-old man. And after another man previously in the race, State Sen. Daylin Leach, withdrew amid accusations of questionable behavior with young female staffers and volunteers.

He also served on Butler City Council and the Bulter Area School Board. Pennsylvania's congressional districts have been redrawn for the May 15 primary with all of Crawford, Erie, Lawrence and Mercer counties and part of Butler County making up the new 16th Congressional District for the 2018 election.
The re-drawn district covers Delaware County, South Philadelphia, and part of Lower Merion in Montgomery County. Fourteen Democrats have filed to run in the fifth. Delaware County Democratic Party Chairman David Landau says several factors are behind the larger than usual field, including a new ...
More than a week after the polls closed in the closely watched and extremely tight special election for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, Republican Rick Saccone on Wednesday conceded defeat to Democrat Conor Lamb, saying while he was “disappointed with the outcome,” he remains “resolute ...
Here is a look at who is running for the 11th Congressional District, which includes southern York County. The ballot could ... After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court redrew the state's congressional districts recently, Smucker's district became the 11th, and now includes parts of York County. The district is ...
The new Pa. congressional districts map. Pennsylvania Department of State · MJ Slaby. Mar 21 2018 · 4:45 p.m.. Mar 21 2018 · 4:45 p.m.. Share · Tweet · Email. Last week, Pennsylvanians went to the polls for a special election in what's now the former Pa. 18th Congressional District. But it wasn't simple. Voters in Sewickley ...
The newly drawn congressional district map was upheld after being challenged in court, and the deadline has passed for major party candidates to get on the ballot. Over the past year, at least eight Democrats have come and gone from the race in Pennsylvania's newly drawn 17th district, which was once ...
Not one of the incumbents in Illinois' 18 congressional districts lost their party's nomination in the March primary. ... Mike Quigley, a Democrat running for his sixth term in the 5th Congressional District, was called the winner of the district's Democratic primary with 63 percent of the vote and 98 percent of ...
HARRISBURG — An avalanche of would-be candidates filed to run for Congress in Pennsylvania ahead of Tuesday's deadline, taking advantage of more competitive districts and far surpassing candidate numbers in the three elections since Pennsylvania dropped to 18 U.S. House seats. More than 90 ...
Conor Lamb, a Democrat, pulled off a narrow but major upset by winning a special House election in the heart of Pennsylvania Trump country. Mr. Lamb won in the state's 18th Congressional District, a reliably Republican seat in recent elections and an area that Donald J. Trump won by nearly 20 ...
Palm Coast Democrat Bob Coffman announced Saturday he was dropping out of the Congressional District 6 race. In a statement posted to his campaign website, Coffman suggested he couldn't keep up with the money that was flowing into competing campaigns. "Our campaign system ... runs on lots and ...
Daniel Biss' personal understanding of life for the majority of Illinoisans has never wavered, influencing his strong stand on health care. His two major opponents, Chris Kennedy and J.B. Pritzker, are m(b)illionaires with no governing experience (like Rauner), and no idea what it's like to have medical bills you can't pay or to ...
New Jersey's Second Congressional District encompasses a vast swath of territory in the southern part of the state – eight counties and 92 towns. Since 1995, Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo has represented the diverse district that includes the Jersey Shore towns, the Delaware Bay and some of the state's broad ...
At the County Elections Office in Santa Barbara, he filed paperwork to put his name on the ballot for a seat in the 24th Congressional District. This will be his third time running for the same government position. He first ran for office in 2014 and lost to fellow Republican Chris Mitchum. In 2016, Fareed was on ...
He says that will be his edge in the race against conservative Mia Love in Utah's 4th Congressional District. “I believe that the experience that I have and the track record that I have working across party lines to balance budgets to solve problems, that's something that's desperately needed in Washington,” ...
2018 Elections: Runoff Set To Replace Lamar Smith In Congressional District 21. By Joey Palacios • 21 hours ago. TweetShareGoogle+Email. Clockwise: Chip Roy, Mary Street Wilson, Joseph Kopser and Matt McCall. Campaign Photos. The race for Congressional District 21 is headed for a runoff, and the candidates ...
Several groups in North County hosted a bipartisan candidate forum Friday for the 49th Congressional District. The already competitive 49th District became a very crowded race after Darrell Issa announced he wouldn't be running for re-election this year. It's a congressional race being closely watched ...
Republican Representatives' Redrawn Pennsylvania Congressional District Map Awaits Court Ruling ... A request by Pennsylvania elections officials from using a map of the state's congressional districts produced by the state Supreme Court last month was in the hands of a three-judge federal panel ...
HARRISBURG (AP) — A request to stop Pennsylvania elections officials from using a map of the state's congressional districts produced by the state Supreme Court last month was in the hands of a three-judge federal panel Friday, at the same time a similar effort was pending before the U.S. Supreme ...
Levi Sanders says the seven Democrats already running to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter are “good folks.” But in an interview with the Monitor, Sanders said he feels he's a “better candidate” and that's one reason why he launched a congressional campaign for the open seat in the state's 1st ...
The new congressional districts in southeastern Pennsylvania under the map imposed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. ... The justices of the state high court, he said, “don't get to act as legislators” by creating criteria for how congressional district lines should be drawn and then creating their own map.


 

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