Democrats are eager to show their gains in the midterms were not an anomaly, while Republicans are working to dispel the notion that support in the suburbs is slipping.
Campaign signs for Democrat Pam Iovino and Republican D. Raja line the streets in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania on March 30, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.MT. LEBANON, Pa.
The seat has flipped back and forth among Democrats and Republicans over the years, held most recently by Republican Guy Reschenthaler, who resigned after being elected to Congress in November. Trump won the district by six points in 2016 but it swung left in the 2018 midterms, voting to handily re-elect Sen. Bob Casey and Gov. Tom Wolf over Republicans who backed Trump’s agenda.
“Pam Iovino is not a Conor Lamb. Her policies are very, very different than Conor Lamb,” said Raja, pointing to guns and abortion. Lamb, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, opposed new restrictions on owning guns and voiced personal opposition to abortion during the campaign, though he didn’t support overturning Roe vs. Wade.
Democrats gained a net of three U.S. House seats in Pennsylvania in 2018, bringing the state’s congressional delegation to an even 9-9 split, and narrowed their gap with Republicans in the state General Assembly. “Maybe in another year I could have taken a look at their guy and said, ‘Yea, maybe,’” said Nolen said of the GOP. “But given what we’ve been through the last two years, I can’t. I can’t imagine opening up any opportunities to Republicans at this moment.”
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