{"id":201959,"date":"2026-05-25T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201959\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:25:07","slug":"how-chris-rabb-won-pa-s-3rd-district-democratic-primary-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201959\/","title":{"rendered":"How Chris Rabb won Pa.\u2019s 3rd District Democratic primary \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s 3rd\u00a0District Democratic primary pitted a progressive movement against establishment power players. In the end, State Rep. Chris Rabb, a Democratic socialist, won the primary, paving the way for a seat in congress. In the latest episode of Battleground Politics, NBC10\u2019s Lauren Mayk speaks with prominent Philadelphia labor leader Ryan Boyer about why the candidate he backed \u2013 Sen. Sharif Street \u2013 lost. She also spoke with J.J. Balaban, a partner with Technicolor Campaigns, who analyzed the primary results.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a full breakdown of the episode: <\/p>\n<p>:00 \u2013 Intro<\/p>\n<p>:49 \u2013 Analyzing the results of the 3rd\u00a0District Democratic primary<\/p>\n<p>1:44 \u2013 A good primary for Philly\u2019s progressive movement<\/p>\n<p>3:58 \u2013 Ryan Boyer on the 3rd\u00a0District primary results<\/p>\n<p>5:47 \u2013 Why more Philly residents aren\u2019t voting<\/p>\n<p>8:14 \u2013 Why the support for Sharif Street wasn\u2019t enough<\/p>\n<p>10:53 \u2013 Philadelphia Building Trades and Chris Rabb<\/p>\n<p>12:20 \u2013 Comparing the 3rd\u00a0District race to the Philly DA\u2019s race<\/p>\n<p>13:36 \u2013 Why the Philadelphia Building Trades backed Sharif Street<\/p>\n<p>15:40 \u2013 Whether a Philadelphia Building Trades endorsement still has power<\/p>\n<p>16:15 \u2013 Poll on why Philadelphians aren\u2019t voting<\/p>\n<p>17:25 \u2013 Why the 3rd\u00a0District primary results were a \u201cwakeup call\u201d<\/p>\n<p>18:51 \u2013 Sen. Sharif Street\u2019s political future<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Battleground Politics anywhere you get your podcasts:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0ONcB5aOxQUJEk5ISrgVuU?si=9b41ccf4d5a84899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/c8573a87-9af5-48fb-b34b-b631db8499ad\/battleground-politics-with-lauren-mayk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Amazon Music<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/battleground-politics-with-lauren-mayk\/id1707399675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rss.art19.com\/battleground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RSS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLcdiRgRcA1vVW_gePK11pgMxzuMzpUrS9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania\u2019s 3rd\u00a0District Democratic primary pitted a progressive movement against establishment power players. In the end, State Rep. Chris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12665,28,30,29,69,50],"class_list":["post-201959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-battleground-politics","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201959","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=201959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}