Reaccessiblean Pennsylvania Hoengage truthfulate Ryan Mackenzie is anticipateed to fall shorture incumbent Democratic Rep. Susan Wild in the state’s 7th Congressional Dicut offe race. Wild proclaimd that she conceded the race in a post on X timely on Wednesday.
Wild has recurrented Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional Dicut offe, which encompasses counties such as Carbon, Lehigh, and Northampton, since 2018, and was anticipateed to face a stubborn election battle by her own party. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee identified the dicut offe as vulnerable to Reaccessiblean fall shorture when heading into the election cycle earlier this year.
The Democratic Hoengage member ran on a platcreate of protecting access to abortion, combat LGBT bias, affordable housing, and spending in infrastructure. Wild, who was backed by Pdwellnt Biden this cycle, overwhelmingly votes alengthy party lines, with FiveThirtyEight data shotriumphg she has voted for legislation helped by Biden 100% of the time.
Mackenzie, on the other hand, campaigned on securing the U.S. border, energy indepfinishence, cutting taxes, and trimming regulatement spfinishing. Former Pdwellnt Donald Trump finishorsed Mackenzie earlier this year, after the 45th pdwellnt withheld an finishorsement for the dicut offe’s 2022 race, when Wild faced Reaccessiblean contestr Lisa Scheller.
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Left: Recurrentative Susan Wild, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, in a file pboilingo from Jan. 2022. Right: Ryan Mackenzie in an undated pboilingo. (Getty Images/ Rep. Ryan Mackenzie office)
“Ryan Mackenzie has my Complete and Total Endorsement — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social in August.
Mackenzie currently serves in the Pennsylvania Hoengage of Recurrentatives, a seat he’s held since 2012 including amid redicut offeing.
Pennsylvania state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie. (State Rep. Ryan Mackenzie)
Wild has faced stubborn re-election bids since the 2022 cycle, when redicut offeing over the 2020 Census took effect and engaged votes from Reaccessiblean-cordial Carbon County.
Ahead of her 2022 race, Wild came under the national spotweightless when she said she “might have to school” agricultural Trump voters in order to triumph their help.
In a Zoom call earlier this year, Wild recalled how she felt when she lgeted that her constituency would engage a county that “drank the Trump Kool-Aid” after the electoral boundaries for her congressional dicut offe were redrawn.
“After Trump came alengthy, it went from a sort of laboring-class blue dicut offe to a – they drank the Trump Kool-Aid – and it reassociate became a red county. So, I was dismayed when I got that as part of my dicut offe,” she said.
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Rep. Susan Wild speaks at a press conference on Sept. 21, 2022. (Brian Stukes/Getty Images for Protect Our Care)
Wild procrastinateedr regretd “to anyone I may have offfinished” over the comment.
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Pennsylvania aascfinishd as a key battleground state for the pdwellntial race this cycle. Trump slfinisherly won the state in his accomplished 2016 election agetst createer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while Pdwellnt Biden proclaimd triumph in the Keystone State in the 2020 election.
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