{"id":1350724,"date":"2022-02-28T22:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T03:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1350724"},"modified":"2022-02-28T22:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T03:22:52","slug":"rep-fred-keller-will-not-seek-reelection-after-pennsylvania-approves-democrat-redistricting-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-fred-keller-will-not-seek-reelection-after-pennsylvania-approves-democrat-redistricting-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Fred Keller Will Not Seek Reelection After Pennsylvania Approves Democrat Redistricting Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-fred-keller-will-not-seek-reelection-after-pennsylvania-approves-democrat-redistricting-map%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1350724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA) announced he will not seek reelection due to the redistricting map recently approved by \u201cthe liberal Pennsylvania Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court approved a redistricting map that merged Keller\u2019s seat with Rep. Glenn Thompson\u2019s (R-PA) district.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_10559574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump-and-Fred-Keller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10559574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump-and-Fred-Keller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Fred Keller (R-Snyder) meets with President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Montoursville, PA, Monday, May 20, 2019. (AP Photo\/Matt Rourke)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Breitbart News\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2022\/02\/24\/pennsylvania-supreme-court-decides-4-3-democrat-redistricting-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One Democrat justice, Debra Todd, sided with two Republican justices in dissent from the 4-3 decision to create a map dubbed the \u201cCarter Plan,\u201d which greatly pleased Democrats. The map creates eight red districts and six blue districts with three districts as a tossup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Keller has represented Pennsylvania\u2019s 12th congressional district since 2019 after taking office in a special election. Instead of challenging Thompson in Pennsylvania\u2019s new 15th congressional district, Keller initially\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.witf.org\/2022\/02\/25\/new-pennsylvania-congressional-map-means-u-s-rep-fred-keller-faces-a-competitive-gop-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0last week that he would seek reelection in the 9th congressional district, running against Republican Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA).<\/p>\n<p>However, Keller changed his mind and announced on Monday that he would not run for office against another member of Pennsylvania\u2019s Republican delegation.<\/p>\n<p>Keller\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoteFredKeller\/status\/1498425651073798144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With control of Congress &#038; the direction of our nation at stake, this election is bigger than any one person. Rather than pit Republicans against Republicans, which the congressional map chosen by the liberal PA Supreme Court does, I am committed to helping take back the House, holding Pennsylvania\u2019s U.S. Senate seat, and electing a conservative Governor. To that end, I am not going to run against another member of Pennsylvania\u2019s Republican Congressional Delegation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With control of Congress &#038; the direction of our nation at stake, this election is bigger than any one person. Rather than pit Republicans against Republicans, which the congressional map chosen by the liberal PA Supreme Court does, I am committed to helping take back the House\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fred Keller (@VoteFredKeller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoteFredKeller\/status\/1498425651073798144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He called out the state\u2019s \u201cliberal\u201d supreme court for allegedly overstepping its authority by choosing the pro-Democrat redistricting map:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The liberal Pennsylvania Supreme Court did the Commonwealth a great injustice when it once again overstepped its authority and selected a partisan map favoring Democrats. Make no mistake, this map\u2014submitted by a national Democrat group\u2014intends to diminish the voices of conservative voters in central &#038; northeast Pennsylvania. As I said last week, I\u2019m not going to let that happen. I\u2019ve always promised to take the values of the people I represent to government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Keller is the 14th Republican member of Congress who is not running for reelection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA) announced he will not seek reelection due to the redistricting map recently approved by \u201cthe liberal Pennsylvania Supreme Court.\u201d Last Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court approved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}