{"id":79469,"date":"2026-01-06T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:54:07","slug":"bethlehem-resident-aiden-gonzalez-files-to-run-in-pa-7th-district-democratic-primary-race-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79469\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem resident Aiden Gonzalez files to run in Pa. 7th District Democratic primary race | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A Bethlehem resident has filed to run in the Democratic primary race for a chance to represent the\u00a0Lehigh Valley in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Aiden Gonzalez is seeking to run in the Pa. 7th District race, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The district covers Lehigh, Northampton, and Carbon counties, as well as parts of Monroe County.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R) currently holds the seat. He\u00a0defeated Democratic Rep. Susan Wild in the November election.<\/p>\n<p>Other Democratic candidates that would take him on include: Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure; Carol Obando-Derstine, who worked as a PPl supervisor; Ryan Crosswell, a former federal prosecutor; Lehigh County Controller Mark Pinsley; and retired Bethlehem firefighter and President of the Professional Fire Fighters Association, Bob Brookes.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s primary election is scheduled to take place Tuesday, May 19, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A Bethlehem resident has filed to run in the Democratic primary race for a chance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[40412,153,155,154,40415,40414,157,2941,40411,28,1582,40413,28772],"class_list":{"0":"post-79469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-aiden-gonzalez","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-democratic-primary-race","13":"tag-federal-election-commission","14":"tag-lehigh-valley","15":"tag-monroe-county","16":"tag-pa-7th-district","17":"tag-pennsylvania","18":"tag-ryan-mackenzie","19":"tag-susan-wild","20":"tag-u-s-house-of-representatives"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79469","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=79469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}