A Democrat running for a vacant seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives received President Joe Biden's endorsement Monday in a race likely to determine control of the legislative chamber, with implications for abortion rights, the 2024...
Ford campaign chair Jamie Santora, a Republican who held the House seat until 2018, said Monday that theA campaign statement provided by Santora said“just endorsed a person who covered up a sexual harassment scandal for four years. This is just another one of his failures that is destroying this country.”
After 12 years with majority Republican control of the House, Democrats flipped a net of 12 seats in November, then held the one-vote majority by sweeping three special elections in February. There is a second vacancy being filled in Tuesday’s voting, a Republican-majority district in central Pennsylvania that is not expected to change hands.
Not counting the two open seats, Democrats have a 101-100 House majority, so a Ford victory would likely give Republicans enough votes to restore one of their own to the speakership and control the House voting calendar and agenda. The state Senate has a Republican majority. Pennsylvania is a swing state, but the great majority of House Republicans hold conservative positions on social issues, election law and government spending. Democrats losing the chamber would make it more difficult for Shapiro, a Democrat in his first year, to pursue his agenda just as intensive negotiations get underway ahead of the June 30 state budget deadline.
Ford has said she is personally against abortion but does not want to change state law and would vote against advancing the referendum. She has criticized
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