{"id":1441526,"date":"2022-04-16T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1441526"},"modified":"2022-04-16T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:45:28","slug":"former-democrat-running-in-pa-republican-primary-for-u-s-house-seat-against-former-trump-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-democrat-running-in-pa-republican-primary-for-u-s-house-seat-against-former-trump-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Democrat Running in PA Republican Primary for U.S. House Seat Against Former Trump Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fformer-democrat-running-in-pa-republican-primary-for-u-s-house-seat-against-former-trump-official%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=1441526&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Michael-Marsicano-for-Congress-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Michael Marsicano, who has run as a Democrat for Congress multiple times, is attempting another run for Congress as a Republican for the second time, against a former Trump official who barely lost in 2020 against Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA).<\/p>\n<p>In Pennsylvania\u2019s primary election next month, Marsicano is running against Jim Bognet, who worked in President Donald Trump\u2019s administration to help create\u00a0manufacturing jobs to rebuild America\u2019s industrial heartland.<\/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<p>But, Marsicano reportedly ran twice before in <a href=\"http:\/\/timesleader.com\/news\/local\/372737\/another-former-hazleton-mayor-to-announce-run-for-congress\">2016<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fox43.com\/2017\/11\/29\/mike-marsicano-announces-candidacy-for-11th-congressional-district\/\">2018<\/a>, both times as a Democrat in Pennsylvania\u2019s Eleventh Congressional District. Both times he was\u00a0unsuccessful in his bid.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Then, in 2019, Marsicano switched political parties from a registered Democrat to a\u00a0registered Republican before he announced his bid for Pennsylvania\u2019s Eighth Congressional District to run against\u00a0Cartwright in the 2020 election, according to his voter registration records, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/news\/768711\/marsicano-switches-to-republican-in-bid-for-8th-congressional-district-seat\">reviewed<\/a> by\u00a0<em>Wilkes-Barre Times Leader<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2020 election, he only received 12.9 percent of the primary vote, less than half of Bognet\u2019s 28.4 percent of the vote in the primary. Currently, in the midterm election cycle, he\u2019s attempting to run against\u00a0Cartwright again, but he will first have to make it past next month\u2019s primary election against Bognet.<\/p>\n<p>However, while\u00a0Bognet openly called his time in the Trump administration one of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bognetforcongress.com\/meet-jim\/\">greatest honors<\/a>\u201d of his life and was proud to attend the president\u2019s 2020 Republican\u00a0nomination acceptance speech at the White House and had Trump\u2019s endorsement in 2020,\u00a0Marsicano is far different.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2016 presidential election cycle,\u00a0Marsicano did not want to endorse the former president. He called himself a \u201cconservative Democrat\u201d but still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witf.org\/2016\/11\/04\/two_former_mayors_of_hazleton_-_one_now_in_congress_-_run_for_house_seat\/\">said<\/a> he would not endorse in the presidential election. Instead, he ran against former Rep.\u00a0Lou Barletta (R-PA), who openly supported the former president and his policies at the time.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2022\/03\/28\/pa-republican-jim-bognet-novembers-election-comes-down-freedom-versus-total-government-control\/\">appearance<\/a> on\u00a0SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Saturday<\/em>, Bognet hammered\u00a0Cartwright for being a\u00a0\u201crubber stamp\u201d to the Democrat policies he hopes to end if elected to Congress. He said that\u00a0November\u2019s midterm election will \u201ccome down to freedom versus total government control of every aspect of our day-to-day life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>@JacobMBliss<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Marsicano, who has run as a Democrat for Congress multiple times, is attempting another run for Congress as a Republican for the second time, against a former Trump official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441526","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\/1441526","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441526\/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=1441526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}