GOP watches vote count in Pa. House race

“And I tell you some more”, he said.

The final poll before election day had Saccone earning 45 per cent of the vote.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she doesn’t think Democrat Conor Lamb ran against her “the entire time” in Pennsylvania’s special election.

With the margin so close, supporters of either candidate can ask for a recount.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in January that the congressional map enacted in 2011 violated the state constitution’s provisions on partisan gerrymandering. But nearly no one actually believes it – with the possible exception of Trump.

And it’s not to downplay the warning Republican congressional candidates should take away: if there’s any significant suburb in your district, it’s time to batten down the hatches and prepare for an unfriendly turnout matrix.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, also branded Lamb a “conservative”, at his weekly news conference on Tuesday. The Rick Saccone campaign was a joke.

“Because you do need the right candidate, have you heard about that?”

As the party barrels into primary season, its biggest success stories star Democratic moderates who’ve run strong in Trump country. It could also lead congressional Republicans and their allies to underestimate their challenge this year – making it more likely that they won’t meet it.

But even in Trump country, Republican lawmakers are “very cautious, concerned”, said Rep.

If there’s one thing we learned last night, it’s that we can win everywhere.

And conversations with voters Tuesday left little doubt those factors were part of what propelled Lamb’s candidacy. Saccone noted his history of being pro-life, of supporting gun rights, and the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”). “That’s a lot”, Trump said, according to The Atlantic.

The president said Lamb “sounded like a Republican to me”. Lamb out-campaigned him, prompting the GOP to dump about $11 million into Saconne’s war chest.

If Saccone had not adopted the Trump position on trade, and if Trump and the national party had not come to the rescue for the campaign for funds and crowds, he would have been shellacked. A Republican PAC ran an ad calling him a “liberal sheep” who would spend his term “voting the straight liberal party line for Pelosi’s extreme agenda”.

“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion, “the future president bemoaned to his wealthy San Francisco donors about Pennsylvania’s working-class denizens”.

For some voters, that was enough. Saccone chose to associate closely with the president, claiming that he was “Trump before Trump was Trump”. I’ve already said on the front page of the newspaper that I don’t support Nancy Pelosi.

“Republican leaders were sitting pretty at the beginning of the year as it looked like public opinion on the tax reform plan was swinging in their favor”.

So I yield the floor to Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt: “It’s more than a ripple”. “We are ready to step up and keep the promises that we made”, he said.

The victory Tuesday will be short-lived, however.

Many Pennsylvania Democrats, especially in Lamb’s region of the state, have opposed abortion: Former Governor Robert Casey and former U.S. Representatives Frank Mascara and John Murtha are cases in point. The new map – which gets rid of much of the current 18th district and renames it as the 14th – is expected to be put in place before the November midterms when all House members have to run for re-election.

Republicans and their allies threw every attack in their political arsenal at Democrat Conor Lamb.

Daniel Nichanian, a postdoctoral fellow in political science at the University of Chicago, reported that in the parts of the district that are in Westmoreland County, Trump had prevailed by 34 percentage points, and Mitt Romney by 27 points in 2012.