1of6FILE – U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Pa., speaks during a news conference at City Hall in Philadelphia, Jan. 18, 2022. President Joe Biden will appear in Pittsburgh on Friday as the opening step in a broader campaign to promote the White House’s achievements in key states ahead of the midterm elections. Lamb, a longtime Biden supporter based in Pittsburgh, will be in attendance, his office confirmed.Matt Rourke/APShow MoreShow Less2of6FILE – Val Arkoosh, Chair of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, tours the Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, in Pittsburgh, on July 16, 2021. Getting rid of the filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate is emerging as perhaps the most important issue in Pennsylvania’s competitive Democratic primary for an open Senate seat, as the party struggles to use its majority in Washington to advance its agenda.Gene J. Puskar/APShow MoreShow Less
3of64of6FILE – Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate, John Fetterman, speaks at a rally supporting unionization efforts at a coffee shop in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood Jan. 5, 2022. President Joe Biden will appear in Pittsburgh on Friday as the opening step in a broader campaign to promote the White House’s achievements in key states ahead of the midterm elections. Fetterman, a leading Senate candidate, and state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the likely Democratic nominee in the race for governor, will be absent because of scheduling conflicts, according to their respective spokespeople. Keith Srakocic/APShow MoreShow Less5of6FILE – Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at a rally of the striking Scranton Federation of Teachers at the Pennsylvania Capitol, on Nov. 10, 2021, in Harrisburg, Pa. Getting rid of the filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate is emerging as perhaps the most important issue in Pennsylvania’s competitive Democratic primary for an open Senate seat, as the party struggles to use its majority in Washington to advance its agenda.Marc Levy/APShow MoreShow Less
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party committee members will meet Saturday in suburban Harrisburg to vote on whether to endorse in the party’s hotly contested primary race for U.S. Senate.
Winning an endorsement is a high hurdle to clear, two-thirds of the party’s roughly 350 committee members.
Conor Lamb, a third-term congressman from suburban Pittsburgh, is considered the favorite to clear that bar, if anybody does.
Lamb’s campaign has worked for months to win over committee members. Lamb has called each committee member multiple times, his campaign said, and sent them mail pieces, including one that crowed that he “beat the Trump machine three times.”
The wide-open race for the battleground-state seat being vacated by two-term Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania is expected to be one of the nation’s premier Senate contests this year.
The Democratic field features John Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, plus Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh and state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta of Philadelphia. The Republican field is notable for three wealthy and well-connected candidates moving from blue states to run in Pennsylvania.
Lamb already has the unanimous endorsement of the party’s 56-member Latino Caucus.
Its chair, David Rodriguez, said caucus members concluded that Lamb is the best candidate to win November’s election.
Lamb, he said, has been calling caucus members since last summer, while the other candidates only began reaching out in the past couple weeks.
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