{"id":195283,"date":"2026-05-18T00:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195283\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:17:05","slug":"republican-battle-for-pennsylvania-senate-seat-centers-on-skill-games-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195283\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican battle for Pennsylvania Senate seat centers on skill games \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nSunday, May 17, 2026 6:53 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"no-lazy\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pennsylvania-skill-games-1-1000x600.jpg\"  \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Generic-Author.jpg\"\/>Lily Sexton, WHP-TV\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>The primary is just days away, and the race for Pennsylvania\u2019s 48th District has become a million-dollar battle that\u2019s playing out over the airwaves.<\/p>\n<p>For Republican Senate candidates Chris Gebhard and Clovis Crane, the divisive issue of skill games has raised the stakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think when we when we talk to people, one of the most common questions we get is what is going on with all of this mail and all of these advertisements and all this negativity, and where did it all come from?\u201d Gebhard told CBS 21.<\/p>\n<p>Gebhard has represented the district, which serves parts of Berks, Lancaster and Lebanon counties, since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/politics-pa\/republican-battle-for-pennsylvania-senate-seat-centers-on-gambling-chris-gebhard-clovis-crane-pa-district-48-lebanon-berks-lancaster-skill-game-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on WHP-TV\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/politics-pa\/republican-battle-for-pennsylvania-senate-seat-centers-on-gambling-chris-gebhard-clovis-crane-pa-district-48-lebanon-berks-lancaster-skill-game-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2190 Back to Newsroom Sunday, May 17, 2026 6:53 PM Lily Sexton, WHP-TV Email, LinkedIn, and more The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[902,393,28,30,29,1979],"class_list":["post-195283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-elections","tag-legislation","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-skill-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195283","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=195283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}