There are 17 U.S. congressional districts on the ballot in Pennsylvania this year. At least four of those races were marked as competitive by both parties, with Republicans trying to defend against Democrat take overs in all four districts.<\/p>\n
In District 2, Democrat Bob Brooks is jumping from firefighter union work to politics. Republican Ryan MacKenzie won the seat in 2024 by 1 percentage point, the tightest margin in the state. District two is located in eastern Pennsylvania, encompassing Allentown and rural areas to the north of the city.<\/p>\n
In District 8, Republican Rob Bresnahan Jr. was also just elected in 2024. Scranton mayor and Democrat Paige Cognetti hopes to oust him\u2013 the 2024 voter margin was 1.6%.<\/p>\n
In central Pennsylvania\u2019s District 10, Republican Scott Perry secured his seventh term in 2024 by a 1.2% vote margin. He\u2019s up this year for a rematch against Democrat Janelle Stelson, who did TV news in the area for years.<\/p>\n
The least competitive by past numbers, District 1 has Republican Brian Fitzpatrick against Democrat Bob Harvie. Fitzpatrick won in 2024 with a 12.8 margin, and has voted against the Trump administration a handful of times. District 1 is northeast of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
When asked about these competitive races, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Republican Party said if Democrats won, \u201cthe next two years will bring nothing but stalled policy and investigations\u201d<\/p>\n
For the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, chairman Eugene DePasquale said the following in an interview:<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Pennsylvania, really across the country, there are higher prices because of a war of choice in Iran. It\u2019s simply what Donald trump and his republican enablers in congress have created. And in Pennsylvania, we have a chance to flip control of congress and hold these folks accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n
These four races are the ones to watch in our commonwealth as the fate of congress is decided on November 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are 17 U.S. congressional districts on the ballot in Pennsylvania this year. At least four of those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2288,37,28,5929,30,29],"class_list":["post-310538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bureau","tag-harrisburg","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-capitol","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310538","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=310538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}