{"id":226527,"date":"2026-06-24T05:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226527\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:27:10","slug":"pennsylvania-is-the-key-to-the-battle-for-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226527\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Is the Key To the Battle For the House"},"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\">The president\u2019s approval rating is underwater in the district, where 41% of constituents support his job performance and 57% disapprove of it. Mackenzie, a former state representative, has tried to put some distance between himself and Trump, joining three other Republicans in supporting a discharge petition to extend enhanced Obamacare tax credits, but he\u2019s also voted for most of Trump\u2019s signature legislation.<\/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\">Mackenzie is facing former Bethlehem firefighter<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7379790\/democratic-party-blue-collar-candidates\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Bob Brooks<\/a>, who earned early endorsements from Senator Bernie Sanders and Shapiro in a crowded primary field.<\/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\">\u201cTrump\u2019s position is really rough,\u201d Yost, the Pennsylvania pollster, said. \u201cHe\u2019s lost a lot of ground, his approval ratings in this state are below where they were in 2018\u2014a big year for Democrats. In a district this competitive, it will be hard for Republicans to defend.\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\">One seat over, in a district that includes swaths of the Pocono Mountains and Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Bresnahan is facing Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti. Bresnahan, who previously served as CEO of his family\u2019s electrical contracting firm, has some union endorsements, including the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president\u2019s approval rating is underwater in the district, where 41% of constituents support his job performance and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[902,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-226527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-elections","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226527","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=226527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}