{"id":197328,"date":"2026-05-20T01:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197328\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T01:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:49:08","slug":"rep-summer-lee-beats-back-primary-challenge-in-pennsylvania-cbs-news-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197328\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Summer Lee beats back primary challenge in Pennsylvania, CBS News projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/summer-lee-bhavini-patel-pennsylvania-12th-congressional-district-election-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rep. Summer Lee<\/a> has won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania&#8217;s 12th Congressional District, CBS News projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who is running for her third term, beat out Will Parker for the nomination in the 2026 Pennsylvania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/pennsylvania-primary-election-may-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">primary election<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. James Hayes ran unopposed for the Republican nomination. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/summer-lee-james-hayes-pennsylvania-12th-congressional-district-2024-election-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lee defeated Hayes<\/a> by nearly 13 points in November 2024&#8217;s general election.<\/p>\n<p>Parker, a political activist in Pittsburgh, has previously tried to run for Allegheny County executive, mayor of Pittsburgh and U.S. Senate. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lee is a member of the &#8220;Squad&#8221; of left-wing, progressive Democrats in Congress. In 2022, she became Pennsylvania&#8217;s first Black woman elected to Congress after defeating Republican Mike Doyle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania&#8217;s 12th Congressional District includes Pittsburgh, the Mon Valley, parts of the South Hills and Westmoreland County. The general election is Tuesday, Nov. 3.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>You can see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pennsylvania-primary-election-results-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">results<\/a>\u00a0below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Summer Lee has won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania&#8217;s 12th Congressional District, CBS News projects.\u00a0 Lee, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[894,836,28,30,29,69808,73,50,5910],"class_list":["post-197328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-allegheny-county","tag-election","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-primary","tag-pittsburgh","tag-politics","tag-westmoreland-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197328","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=197328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}