PA-07: Who can beat Trump-loving Pa. Congressman? 4 Dems make their case in 7th District.
The stakes couldn’t be higher. The winner of the Democrat primary in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District will be showered with millions in campaign cash in the hope of knocking off a seemingly vulnerable GOP incumbent and helping turn the U.S. House blue in this year’s midterm elections.
Anchored in the Lehigh Valley and long defined by razor‑thin margins, the district has become one of a handful of races nationally that could help decide control of Congress this fall.
But the race among four candidates to be the party’s standard‑bearer has been mostly mild‑mannered, even as it stretches across a politically diverse district that includes all of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties, along with small parts of Monroe County.
The candidates are Bob Brooks, a state firefighter union president; former federal prosecutor Ryan Crosswell; Carol Obando‑Derstine, an ex‑aide to former U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. who also worked as a utility company supervisor; and Lamont McClure, who most recently served two terms as Northampton County’s chief executive.
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