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This week, House Analyst Erin Covey breaks down the House results from the Pennslyvania. She notes that incumbents had a strong showing, with moderate Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick easily beating back a primary challenge on his right, and freshman Democratic Rep. Summer Lee defeating a centrist challenger.
Transcript:
Erin Covey: [00:00:00] Hi, I'm Erin Covey, and I am the U. S. House Analyst for the Cook Political Report, and I'm just going to be talking through some Pennsylvania primary results that we got last night. Um, so we had a pretty exciting primary day in Pennsylvania. At the Senate level, there were interesting races because the nominees there, um, did not face any opponents.
And at the presidential level, the primary Is basically over though. We did see Nikki Haley, um, kind of do surprisingly well as a, as a protest vote in the Republican presidential primary, but most of the action was on the house side, um, where we had
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