Goodbye Conor Lamb-- Hello Chris Deluzio
There are two good things about Conor Lamb running for the Senate– he’s leaving the House and he’s not going to win the Senate seat.
Lamb was elected to Congress in 2018. Since then, he has run up the worst voting record of any of Pennsylvania’s congressional Democrats. His ProgressivePunch rating is a solid “F”– the 20th worst Democrat in the House. He voted against Pelosi as speaker.
Most of the district is west and north of Pittsburgh with the convenient exception of Mt. Lebanon, Lamb’s hometown south of Pittsburgh. Almost all the voters live in Allegheny and Beaver counties. Last year, Biden beat Trump in the district 50.7% to 48.0%. Lamb beat his right-wing challenger, the current GOP Senate frontrunner, Sean Parnell, 222,253 (51.1%) to 212,284 (48.9%). Current voter registration favors the Democrats:
Democrats- 255,843
Republicans- 195,169
Others- 76,772
And now the good news. The candidate running to replace Lamb, isn’t another Republican-lite DINO. A former Bernie delegate and a graduate of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Chris’ economic populism is a perfect fit for PA-17, where he is campaigning against monopoly power.