Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright concedes race to GOP challenger

Rob Bresnahan, the Trump–backed House campaigner for Pennsylvania, is expected to decision incumbent Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright, based connected existent ballot numbers arsenic of midday Tuesday. Cartwright had congratulated his hostile and conceded the contention precocious connected Election Day.

Cartwright was archetypal sworn into Congress successful 2013, wherever helium represented Pennsylvania’s 17th District earlier the authorities redistricted successful 2018 and Cartwright was elected to correspond the 8th District. 

The 8th Congressional District is located successful Pennsylvania’s northeastern portion and includes cities specified arsenic Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, encompassing Wayne, Pike and Lackawanna counties arsenic good arsenic portions of Luzerne and Monroe counties. 

Cartwright’s re-election run was intimately watched due to the fact that helium represents 1 of conscionable 9 districts crossed the state wherever Democrats worked to support their seats aft erstwhile President Trump won the districts successful the 2020 statesmanlike election. 

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Democrat Pennsylvania Rep. Matt Cartwright, left, and Republican Pennsylvania House campaigner Rob Bresnahan (Getty Images/Rob for PA)

Cartwright’s territory voted to re-elect Trump successful 2020, carrying the territory by 2.9 points implicit Biden, portion Cartwright defeated his Republican legislature challenger by conscionable implicit 7,000 votes of the 286,886 formed that year, New York Times information shows. 

Cartwright campaigned connected a level of strengthening the economy, protecting entree to abortion, fixing "the breached asylum process" astatine the borderline and strengthening Social Security benefits.

Bresnahan is simply a fifth-generation autochthonal of Luzerne County and CEO of Kuharchik Construction who campaigned connected securing the border, cutting taxes and trimming authorities spending, creating "family-sustaining jobs" successful the Keystone State and supporting instrumentality enforcement. 

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Rob Bresnahan, Republican nominee for Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District, takes the signifier during erstwhile President Trump's run rally, Oct. 9, 2024, successful Scranton. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Bresnahan earned Trump’s endorsement for the spot successful April. 

"A palmy Businessman, Rob has worked hard to Create Jobs and Grow the Economy, dissimilar his opponent, Matt Cartwright, who is wholly beholden to Nancy Pelosi and the Radical Left. As your adjacent Congressman, Rob volition combat hard to Secure the Border, Cut Wasteful Spending, Strengthen our Military, Support our Veterans, Protect our ever nether siege Second Amendment, and Hold Joe Biden and his Thugs Accountable for their Unconstitutional Lawfare, Corruption, and ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Rob Bresnahan has my Complete and Total Endorsement!" Trump posted connected Truth Social.

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Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Pa., speaks during a House Appropriations subcommittee proceeding connected April 9, 2019. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Cartwright has antecedently travel nether occurrence for portraying himself arsenic a "moderate" Democrat, with Fox News Digital reporting this twelvemonth that his voting grounds paints different story. Voting records amusement Cartwright overwhelmingly voted successful enactment with Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., erstwhile she served arsenic House speaker and that helium continued his rank successful the left-wing Congressional Progressive Caucus.

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"Every predetermination twelvemonth Matt Cartwright proclaims ‘I enactment for you’ to the working-class voters of the 8th District. How could that beryllium existent arsenic a subordinate of the extremist Progressive Caucus? It's not. Matt Cartwright represents the extremist left, and they ain his vote," Bresnahan told Fox News Digital successful March. 

Cartwright’s run has defended him arsenic "the astir bipartisan Democrat successful the House, having introduced much bipartisan bills than immoderate different Democrat since coming to Congress."

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All governmental eyes person been connected Pennsylvania successful caller months arsenic the authorities emerged erstwhile again arsenic a cardinal battleground for the statesmanlike race. Trump narrowly won the authorities successful his palmy 2016 predetermination against erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, portion President Biden declared victory successful the Keystone State successful the 2020 election.

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