{"id":197407,"date":"2026-05-20T03:21:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197407\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:21:04","slug":"bob-brooks-wins-democratic-primary-for-pas-7th-congressional-district-ap-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197407\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Brooks wins Democratic primary for PA\u2019s 7th Congressional District, AP projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276280166-scaled-e1779241376964.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Former State Representative Bob Brooks, a Democrat from Pennsylvania and US Congressional candidate, during a campaign event ahead of a primary election in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, US, on Sunday, May 17, 2026. Pennsylvania will hold a primary electio <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Former firefighter and union president Bob Brooks is the projected winner of the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 7th Congressional District, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Bob Brooks<a href=\"https:\/\/brooksforcongress.com\/issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0campaigned on<\/a> economic development, public safety and support for small businesses.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He spent 20 years as a firefighter in Bethlehem and now serves as the union President of the Pennsylvania Professional firefighters Association,<a href=\"https:\/\/brooksforcongress.com\/meet-bob-brooks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0according to his campaign website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He has<a href=\"https:\/\/brooksforcongress.com\/meet-bob-brooks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0sought to appeal<\/a> to moderate Democratic voters in the swing district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Brooks has vowed to fight for the working class, calling Washington a &#8220;dumpster fire&#8221; run by billionaires and big corporations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;The system isn\u2019t broken. It\u2019s working the way it was designed: by and for the super rich,&#8221; Brooks&#8217; website reads.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">In a bulleted list of campaign promises, Brooks backs term limits and ending stock trading in congress, saying &#8220;if you want to get rich, don&#8217;t run for office.&#8221; He also hopes to impose fair taxes for the rich and banning corporate PAC money from politics.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Brooks has received major endorsements from local and national political figureheads, including Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Senator Bernie Sanders, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Bob has always had my back \u2014 and I am proud to endorse him in this race and stand with him in the fight to make life more affordable and get stuff done for our communities,&#8221; Gov. Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He has also been given endorsements from workers&#8217; unions like the International Association of Firefighters, Ironworkers Local 404, and Teamsters Local 773.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/elections-2026\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Elections<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/politics\/pa-politics\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Former State Representative Bob Brooks, a Democrat from Pennsylvania and US Congressional candidate, during a campaign event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,836,25694,8347,50],"class_list":["post-197407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-election","tag-elections-2026","tag-pa-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197407","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=197407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}