{"id":79512,"date":"2026-01-06T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79512\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:42:06","slug":"bethlehem-resident-aiden-gonzalez-files-to-run-in-pa-7th-district-democratic-primary-race-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79512\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem resident Aiden Gonzalez files to run in Pa. 7th District Democratic primary race | State"},"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":79513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[40412,153,155,154,40415,40414,157,9292,9297,40420,2941,434,40411,28,5169,1582,40413,28772,8551],"class_list":["post-79512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-aiden-gonzalez","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-democratic-primary-race","tag-federal-election-commission","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-members-of-the-united-states-congress","tag-members-of-the-united-states-house-of-representatives","tag-members-of-the-united-states-house-of-representatives-from-pennsylvania","tag-monroe-county","tag-northampton-county","tag-pa-7th-district","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-politicians","tag-ryan-mackenzie","tag-susan-wild","tag-u-s-house-of-representatives","tag-united-states-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79512","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=79512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}