“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.
So,EVERY minority republican state party, where the majority party drew districts that are odd-shaped or didn’t have minority party input, should immediately file a federal lawsuit saying that they are being disenfranchised because of “Goofy kicking Donald Duck” districts like the one in PA. Illinois should be first. If the minority party HAD standing to get the original map invalidated, and the majority party didn’t have standing to challenge the dictators in robes’ map, then it must follow that Illinois and Maryland’s majority-created maps are invalid, too.
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Lamb had to run as a right of center, 2A supporting candidate in District 18.
What would an R need to run as, against Mr Conservative Lamb, to win the new D-17?
Thanks.
This is why State elections matter so much.
Be i the 18th district or the 14th district, hopefully they can fine a better candidate to run than Saccone. The guy ran a terrible campaign.