{"id":204865,"date":"2026-05-28T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204865\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:05:09","slug":"merski-wins-gop-nomination-for-district-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204865\/","title":{"rendered":"Merski wins GOP nomination for District 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/talkerie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/vote...ballot-box.png\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/vote...ballot-box-640x360.png\"   alt=\"vote\" title=\"vote...ballot box\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incumbent Democratic State Rep. Bob Merski, representing District 2 in the General Assembly, has won the Republican nomination in a write-in campaign. According to unofficial results Wednesday, Merski received 330 votes, beating Republican Brian Shank who also ran an organized write-in campaign.<\/p>\n<p>While Merski was able to win, he only received 43.82% of the votes compared to Shank\u2019s 39.18% of votes he received.<\/p>\n<p>This election altogether was low attended. Out of 174,981 total voters in Erie County, only 36,310 people cast a vote which is only 20.75% of registered voters in all of Erie County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incumbent Democratic State Rep. Bob Merski, representing District 2 in the General Assembly, has won the Republican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-204865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204865","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=204865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}