Reaccessiblean Pennsylvania Hoparticipate truthfulate Ryan Mackenzie is foreseeed to loss incumbent Democratic Rep. Susan Wild in the state’s 7th Congressional Didisjoine race. Wild proclaimd that she conceded the race in a post on X punctual on Wednesday.
Wild has recurrented Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional Didisjoine, which encompasses counties such as Carbon, Lehigh, and Northampton, since 2018, and was foreseeed to face a stubborn election battle by her own party. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee identified the didisjoine as vulnerable to Reaccessiblean loss when heading into the election cycle earlier this year.
The Democratic Hoparticipate member ran on a platcreate of protecting access to abortion, combat LGBT bias, affordable housing, and set upateing in infraset up. Wild, who was backed by Pdwellnt Biden this cycle, overwhelmingly votes aextfinished party lines, with FiveThirtyEight data shoprosperg 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 didisjoine’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 Hoparticipate of Recurrentatives, a seat he’s held since 2012 including amid redidisjoineing.
Pennsylvania state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie. (State Rep. Ryan Mackenzie)
Wild has faced stubborn re-election bids since the 2022 cycle, when redidisjoineing over the 2020 Census took effect and included votes from Reaccessiblean-frifinishly Carbon County.
Ahead of her 2022 race, Wild came under the national spotairy when she said she “might have to school” agricultural Trump voters in order to prosper their help.
In a Zoom call earlier this year, Wild recalled how she felt when she lobtained that her constituency would include a county that “drank the Trump Kool-Aid” after the electoral boundaries for her congressional didisjoine were redrawn.
“After Trump came aextfinished, it went from a sort of toiling-class blue didisjoine 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 didisjoine,” 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 tardyr convey remorsed “to anyone I may have offfinished” over the comment.
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Pennsylvania ecombined as a key battleground state for the pdwellntial race this cycle. Trump slfinisherly won the state in his accomplished 2016 election aobtainst createer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while Pdwellnt Biden proclaimd prosper in the Keystone State in the 2020 election.
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