This weekend, Lehigh County controller Mark Pinsley declared his candidacy for a congressional seat in one of Pennslyvania’s most purple (PVI is R+1) districts, PA-07— all of Lehigh and Northampton counties and some of Carbon and Monroe counties. The current congressman, Ryan Mackenzie is a freshman who hasn’t made much of an impression except as someone who does whatever Trump likes. So the folks in the district who are just looking for a Trump puppet, have their man already.

The others are watching a tight primary race forming between a quartet of corporate-aligned New Dem types on the one hand— recent Republican, Ryan Crosswell (the kind of stooge the DCCC likes), Northampton County executive Lamont McClure, EMILY’s List candidate Carol Obando-Derstine and the Josh Shapiro pick, Bob

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