{"id":1580635,"date":"2022-07-30T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1580635"},"modified":"2022-07-30T14:48:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T18:48:50","slug":"democrats-republicans-prioritize-open-suburban-pittsburgh-congressional-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-republicans-prioritize-open-suburban-pittsburgh-congressional-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats, Republicans Prioritize Open Suburban Pittsburgh Congressional Seat"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fdemocrats-republicans-prioritize-open-suburban-pittsburgh-congressional-seat%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=1580635&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>A U.S. House seat is up for grabs in Pennsylvania after Rep. Conor Lamb, a Democrat, left to run for U.S. Senate in a race he ultimately lost to Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney and Iraq War veteran Chris Deluzio is determined to keep the 17th Congressional District \u201cblue\u201d while former local township commissioner Jeremy Shaffer is the candidate Republicans hope will prevail and allow the party to flip the seat.<\/p>\n<p>If Republicans achieve a net gain of five seats in the 435-seat chamber this November, they would recapture the majority they lost in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates decisively won their respective primaries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/30\/shaffer.jpg\"><\/a> Jeremy Shaffer is running against Chris Deluzio in Pennsylvania\u2019s 17th Congressional District general election. (Courtesy of Jeremy Shaffer for Congress) <\/p>\n<p>Deluzio defeated Sean Meloy by almost 27 percentage points, while Shaffer received 58.7 percent of the vote compared to 24.3 percent for Jason Killmeyer and 17 percent for Kathleen Coder.<\/p>\n<p>Shaffer was added to the National Republican Congressional Committee\u2019s (NRCC) \u201cYoung Guns\u201d program, which is led by House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and provides candidates with \u201cthe tools they need\u201d to win.<\/p>\n<p>Deluzio is part of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee\u2019s Red to Blue program, which provides candidates considered \u201ctop-tier\u201d with organizational and fundraising support.<\/p>\n<p>The NRCC has booked around $3 million in advertising spots to support Shaffer. The DCCC has pledged $1.4 million in advertisements. Other committees related to both parties have indicated they will pour millions of dollars into the race.<\/p>\n<p>The 17th\u00a0district is located in western Pennsylvania and includes Beaver County and a broad portion of Allegheny County in suburban Pittsburgh. Redistricting has made it friendlier to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The Cook Political Report and Sabato\u2019s Crystal Ball rate the race as a toss-up. Inside Elections calls the district \u201cTilt Democratic,\u201d while FiveThirtyEight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. House seat is up for grabs in Pennsylvania after Rep. Conor Lamb, a Democrat, left to run for U.S. Senate in a race he ultimately lost to Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in the Democratic primary. Attorney and Iraq War veteran Chris Deluzio is determined to keep the 17th Congressional District \u201cblue\u201d while former [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"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-1580635","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\/1580635","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580635\/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=1580635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}