Polls closed earlier tonight for the special election in the Pennsylvania 18th Congressional District. The district was previously represented by a Republican, Tim Murphy, who resigned in a sex scandal, and voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 Elections by a 20% margin. The Democratic candidate, Connor Lamb, is winning over the Republican Candidate, Rick Sacconne, by a 1% margin with 87% of the vote counted.
>President Trump won this Pittsburgh-area district by about 20 points in 2016, but it's Lamb who has run a high-energy race to challenge Saccone, after Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., resigned last year amid a sex scandal. Republicans have privately grumbled that their candidate has been lackluster, and the Democrat could be poised to pull off the upset. Polls closed at 8 p.m. ET.
>If Lamb is victorious, it would be the highest-profile warning yet against the GOP ahead of this November's midterm elections. Not only will Democrats have finally flipped a GOP House seat in a special election, but the win would come in a solidly red area and underscore just how little help Trump might provide the party this fall
>President Trump won this Pittsburgh-area district by about 20 points in 2016, but it's Lamb who has run a high-energy race to challenge Saccone, after Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., resigned last year amid a sex scandal. Republicans have privately grumbled that their candidate has been lackluster, and the Democrat could be poised to pull off the upset. Polls closed at 8 p.m. ET.
>If Lamb is victorious, it would be the highest-profile warning yet against the GOP ahead of this November's midterm elections. Not only will Democrats have finally flipped a GOP House seat in a special election, but the win would come in a solidly red area and underscore just how little help Trump might provide the party this fall
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/pennsylvania-election-latest/index.html
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I wish the commies would finally do something that could be classified as overstepping their bounds.
>CNN
Anon are you okay?
On a more serious note, Let's hope this isn't a taste of the other elections to come this year…
Anon are you okay?
On a more serious note, Let's hope this isn't a taste of the other elections to come this year…
>>128415
Here you go
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/13/live-updates-rick-saccone-conor-lamb-pa-18/
923 vote lead for Lamb at the moment. Who ever wins, the Democrats performed 20% better than they did in the same district in 2016 in the Presidential election
Here you go
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/13/live-updates-rick-saccone-conor-lamb-pa-18/
923 vote lead for Lamb at the moment. Who ever wins, the Democrats performed 20% better than they did in the same district in 2016 in the Presidential election
>>128412
If he loses narrowly its for 3 reasons.
1 He's defending the status quo.
We used to say we were fighting it but the dem can now argue he's fighting against the president which controls oth houses and the Judiciary. This isn't true entirely though because the kikes still control the media which he is using.
2. They re-distracted PEN resentfully. The judges saw they were gerrymandering so they had them re-district them to be more competitive.
3. GOP doesn't have an insensitive to vote. They will in the midterms but the dems want to build up for the blue wave and most conservatives are feeling pretty comfy and don't see a reason not to make the GOP try to push their shit harder. I'd have stayed home if I was in PEN.
If he loses narrowly its for 3 reasons.
1 He's defending the status quo.
We used to say we were fighting it but the dem can now argue he's fighting against the president which controls oth houses and the Judiciary. This isn't true entirely though because the kikes still control the media which he is using.
2. They re-distracted PEN resentfully. The judges saw they were gerrymandering so they had them re-district them to be more competitive.
3. GOP doesn't have an insensitive to vote. They will in the midterms but the dems want to build up for the blue wave and most conservatives are feeling pretty comfy and don't see a reason not to make the GOP try to push their shit harder. I'd have stayed home if I was in PEN.
4000 Absentee ballots to be counted in the morning
This election is honestly pretty meaningless. I kind of hope Saccone ends up winning in the recount just because I don't want to have to listen to libshits gloat about it, but neither of these candidates are all that different from each other. Plus they're just going to do this again in 9 months anyway and I'm pretty sure the state will be redistricted by then. I guess we'll see what happens though.
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Part of it is that Lamb has run a very moderate race. I was watching an interview with him on CBS and they asked him if he felt his polling numbers were a reflection of Trump's performance as president and enthusiasm of the democratic base. Unlike most leftwing politicians he sidestepped the bit about Trump entirely and simply said that his voters were enthusiastic and that he wanted to thank everyone volunteering their time to his campaign.
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