{"id":316259,"date":"2026-10-28T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316259\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:56:07","slug":"live-from-newtown-pas-role-in-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316259\/","title":{"rendered":"Live from Newtown: Pa&#8217;s role in the midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re less than a week away from midterm election day and tensions are high. Polls show democrats favored to win the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate appears to be in play, but neither party is taking anything for granted.<\/p>\n<p>Four crucial Pennsylvania congressional races have drawn a lot of national attention and money, including the 1st Congressional District in Bucks County where five-time Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick faces Democratic challenger and County Commissioner Bob Harvie.<\/p>\n<p>On this live Studio 2 On the Road special, we\u2019re at the Newtown Theatre in Bucks County to talk about the races that could determine control of Congress, the issues firing voters up, the barrage of attack ads, and election security. Joining us are two former Pennsylvania congressmen \u2014 Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Charlie Dent \u2014\u00a0along with political science professor Kelly Ditmar.<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Dent, former Pa. Congressman from the Lehigh Valley (R)<br \/>\nConor Lamb, former Pa. Congressman from Western Pa. (D)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/polisci.camden.rutgers.edu\/faculty\/kelly-dittmar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Dittmar<\/a>, political science professor at Rutgers University Camden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re less than a week away from midterm election day and tensions are high. Polls show democrats favored&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,12736],"class_list":["post-316259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-studio-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316259","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=316259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}