Nope. No more 18th district.....it is now in two other districts. So BOTH Lamb and Saccone are running in new districts but not against each other.
“So BOTH Lamb and Saccone are running in new districts” ...
Yes. Saccone should be in a “safe R” seat now that a lot of the “blue” in PA-18 has been trimmed out (most of PA-18 is now PA-14). I think fish-faced Mike Doyle gets the SW parts of Allegheny County that used to be in PA-18 (PA-18 is now communist territory that includes the City of Pittsburgh).
Lamb will more than likely run in the new PA-17 which is gerrymandered to give the Ds a slight advantage (Trump would have won this new PA-17, but not by much).
Overall, the map was tweaked to give the Dems a dead minimum of +2 Reps with up to +5 not being out of the question in “wave elections”. It is very likely that the Dems will gain 3 seats via redistricting this fall. The Pittsburgh solid-D district is a gerrymander though it doesn’t look like it. Penn Hills should be part of the new PA-18 while Jefferson Hills and the like should part of new PA-14. They did a “good” (sarcastic) job making sure they spread enough of the blue tumor of Pittsburgh around to screw a lot of people out of accurate representation.
Pretty ironic, the Democrats thought they were removing a deep Red district they couldn’t compete in.
Interesting. I know nothing about Saccone, but to think that in this day and age, the Democrats would allow someone to run as Lamb did, is unthinkable. I do remember skimming an article that stated he really is your typical, modern liberal, he just hid all of that during the campaign. Still boggles my mind that he could win.