Posted on 03/03/2018 10:28:51 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
Democrat Conor Lamb is pounding his Republican opponent Rick Saccone in fundraising ahead of the March 13 special election for a vacant U.S. House seat in a conservative southwestern Pennsylvania district, a contest viewed as a gauge of Republican strength ahead of 2018's midterm elections.
The district, covering Pittsburgh's southern suburbs and southwestern Pennsylvania's coal mines, steel plants and gas fields, has long been a Republican stronghold and strongly backed President Donald Trump in 2016. But polls show a tight race and it has emerged as the nation's political hotspot as Lamb tries for an upset.
Lamb reported raising more than $3.3 million in the first seven weeks of 2018, almost five times the $703,000 Saccone reported in filings to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday night. Lamb spent most of the money, leaving him $837,000 in cash heading into the final three weeks of the race. That was more than twice as much as the $303,000 Saccone reported.
The race has drawn heavy attention and millions of dollars from Republicans and Trump in an effort to bolster Saccone and protect the GOP's U.S. House majority. Trump has made one visit to the district, and promised another, while Vice President Mike Pence and Trump's daughter, Ivanka, have made appearances with Saccone in the district, as well.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is heading to the district Tuesday to campaign for Lamb. Democrats must flip at least 24 GOP-held seats to capture a majority, and a Lamb victory would raise their national hopes considerably.
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California money perhaps, like the pile that loser Jon Ossoff amassed?
They are organized and they are desperate. We have to work harder and I am not seeing it. We have to be strategic here. The Party MUST Vet candidates and support the best candidate that can win or else it’s a bloodbath.
Why isn’t soros’s moneny considered dirty tike the russain’s money?
Soros and company trying to buy another election!
Rick Saccone should bring out the Mint Jelly
Call Lamb anti-coal, anti-Steel and to take away your Tax-Cuts with Nancy Pelosi. The Dems have a Very Bad Poker Hand.
The democrats are literally poor small fortunes into these congressional, (and even some state and local races) just to keep the narrative going that a blue wave is coming this fall. Unfortunately (for them) this comes at a cost, they are literally burning money faster than they can raise it and the campaign season hasn’t even started.
What do the polls say?
It’s all about turnout.
President Trump has rescheduled his rally for Saccone next Saturday night @7ET.
This will be literally a GOTV event, coming ONLY three days prior to election day.
Hope nothing interferes this time around!!!
Maybe the coal miners and small business people of SW PA like the way democrats run economies and handle classified material
Maybe they want boys in the girls’ showers in their high schools
The questions should be asked repeatedly
Rick Saccone for Congress
http://ricksaccone.com/
In a Pennsylvania Steel Town, Donald Trump’s Tariff Is a Winner
Wall Street Journal | 03/03/2018 | Kris Maher
Posted on 03/03/2018 8:22:30 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3636874/posts
Heads Up!!!
CSPAN is carrying a debate between Saccone and Lamb tomorrow/Sunday night @6:30 ET.
How many times in a row are they going to use this line? It has been the only comment on every election since NOV 2016.
I grew up there and back then it was mostly Democrat. Its conversion to Republican is a recent development.
Kerry carried Washington and Fayette (but not Greene), but the cornerstone counties flipped to McCain in ‘08.
Trump was +24% in Washington, and +40% in Greene in ‘16.
Frank Mascara (D) represented the cornerstone until 2003, but it’s been Tim Murphy since then.
Yep. Most people registered do not vote in these special elections. They do not follow politicis or the news very closely. They are truly non-political.
A good GOTV will get them to come out and vote. They vote the way the GOTV person at their door asks them to vote. I know. I have done it. Every effective GOTV worker has done it.
You either play to win... or you lose.
How many Mafia cities in Pennsylvania anyway?.
Hmmmm - yet they claim that Saccone "only raised" a little more than $700K - what's wrong with this picture?
I don't believe this is true any longer, after Soros' injection of $18 billion of his fortune into his Open Society organizations.
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