{"id":179264,"date":"2026-04-29T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179264\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:01:07","slug":"pa-election-2026-3rd-congressional-district-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179264\/","title":{"rendered":"PA election 2026: 3rd Congressional District Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What questions do you have about the 2026 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Voters in Philadelphia have an opportunity on Wednesday to get to know candidates running for Pennsylvania\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/pennsylvania-election-2026-primary-3rd-congressional-district\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3rd Congressional District<\/a>, the area\u2019s most closely watched <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/elections-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">primary election<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>WHYY is hosting a debate between the three leading candidates in the race, which will be moderated by \u201cStudio 2\u201d hosts Avi Wolfman-Arent and Cherri Gregg. The three leading candidates in the race \u2014 state Rep. Christopher Rabb, Dr. Ala Stanford and state Sen. Sharif Street \u2014 will take questions related to key voter issues. Another candidate, attorney Shaun Griffith, is not participating.\n<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/pennsylvania-election-2026-primary-voter-guide-deadlines\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania\u2019s May 19 primary<\/a> approaching, the debate offers voters a timely chance to hear candidates directly answer questions and compare their visions for Philadelphia\u2019s future representation in Congress.\n  <\/p>\n<p>The race has drawn significant attention since the incumbent, Dwight Evans, announced his decision <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/dwight-evans-congress-philly-retire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not to run for reelection<\/a> last year. Pennsylvania\u2019s 3rd District, which covers the western half of Philadelphia, is strongly Democratic, making the primary contest the deciding race in who will succeed Evans in Congress next year.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What questions do you have about the 2026 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25694,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-179264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-elections-2026","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}