Update, March 24, 2019: Lamb was up for re-election with the newly redrawn state of Pennsylvania electoral map in 2018. He ran in the 17th District, against fellow incumbent Republican Keith Loftus. Lamb defeated him with 56.3 percent of the vote to Loftus’s 43.7 percent.
Lamb is due up again in 2020. Please consider him for your next Core Four.
This OTYCD entry originally posted in January 2018.
Update March 24, 2018: This was a nail-biter. Lamb had a slight but clear lead of 627 votes by the end of the night on March 13, 2018–a margin that was smaller than half a percentage point, and smaller than the number of votes cast for the Libertarian candidate. A recount begun on Friday, March 16 increased Lamb’s lead slightly, nudging it past 800 votes.
Republican opponent Rick Saccone called Lamb to concede the election on March 21. Lamb will lead Pennsylvania’s 18th District until November, when new electoral maps, designed to combat the effects of pro-Republican gerrymandering, go into effect. Lamb will run in the 17th District, and Saccone will run in the 14th District.
Read a Washington Post story about the conclusion of the Pennsylvania special election:
Original text of the post follows:
Support Democrat Conor Lamb’s run for the open house seat in Pennsylvania’s 18th district. The special election takes place on March 13, 2018.
Lamb, 33, is a former federal prosecutor who did notable work tackling the opioid crisis in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also a veteran of the Marine corps, where he rose to the rank of captain. He comes from a political family; his grandfather and his uncle prominently served in high-profile state posts.
Lamb is facing Republican state rep Rick Saccone, who likes to say that he “was Trump before Trump was Trump.” Lamb has never held elected office, and PA-18 has a strong Republican reputation. Given the overperformances by Democrats in special elections and state and local elections since Trump was elected, the Democrats believe that Lamb has a decent shot at the House seat.
Republican Tim Murphy vacated the seat in October 2017 after news broke that the pro-life Congressman had evidently urged a pregnant mistress to abort. He had held the Congressional seat since 2003.
See Lamb’s campaign website (scroll down for his bio):
Consider Lamb for your Core Four for 2018 (if he wins the special election, he’ll be up for re-election in November 2018; if he loses in March, he could choose to run again):
https://onethingyoucando.com/2017/12/24/choose-your-core-four-for-2018/
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Donate to Conor Lamb:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/lamb-for-congress-1
Like him on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ConorLambPA/
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See Ballotpedia’s page on Pennsylvania’s 18th District:
https://ballotpedia.org/Pennsylvania%27s_18th_Congressional_District_special_election,_2018
Read about the Democrats choosing Lamb for the special election (there were no primaries in this case):
Read a Politico story about how the Lamb-Saccone contest could be a bellwether for the 2018 midterms:
Read about the circumstances of Murphy’s retirement from Congress:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/04/tim-murphy-abortion-mistress-243456
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