{"id":197417,"date":"2026-05-20T03:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197417\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:29:13","slug":"chris-rabb-scores-big-win-for-progressives-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197417\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rabb Scores Big Win for Progressives in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Lee, for her part, tells TIME that Democrats need to foster more vocal pushback against the GOP and from within the party. \u201cWe\u2019re actually not a strong party when we\u2019re all shaking our heads, nodding yes.\u201d She says Rabb\u2019s success demonstrated a rejection of the status quo. \u201cRight now, all over the country, Democratic voters of all different types of backgrounds are finding themselves answering the question, Is this the best we can get? \u2026 As authoritarianism runs roughshod over our country, people are starting to say, \u2018This is not where I want to plant my flag,\u2019 and wondering: if Republicans and MAGA are willing to fight this hard, why can\u2019t they?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/philadelphia\/israel-gaza-ala-stanford-sharif-street-chris-rabb-20260430.html\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">race had an outsized focus on Gaza<\/a>, reflecting a broader national debate within the party about how far criticism of Israel should go. Rabb advocated on the trail for Palestinian rights and openly labeled Israel&#8217;s military actions in Gaza as a \u201cgenocide.\u201d He lambasted his opponents for their unwillingness to do the same. Rabb drew some heat when he appeared at multiple campaign events in April with Hassan Piker, a left-wing political commentator and Twitch streamer who has made a series of inflammatory statements critical of Israel and of U.S. foreign policy. Stanford, a first-time candidate, benefited from the backing of 314 Action, a PAC dedicated to electing scientists and doctors to Congress. But rumors swirled that the dark money group was funded by AIPAC in the race. The head of 314 Action denied AIPAC was a funder. \u201cI don\u2019t think the residents of West Philadelphia, North Philadelphia, think Israel and Gaza are in the top 20 things impacting them but the way the issue was used and accentuated by Rabb was effective at stirring people up,\u201d Ceisler said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee, for her part, tells TIME that Democrats need to foster more vocal pushback against the GOP and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2258,87622,87623,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-197417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-democrats","tag-news-desk","tag-news-desk-edits","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197417","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=197417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}