Republicans pour another $1.5 million into PA special election

[L. Coyote]

Nervous Republicans pour another $1.5 million into special election in red Pennsylvania district
By Laura Clawson Jan 22, 2018

HOUSTON, PA - JANUARY 13: Democrat Conor Lamb, a former U.S. attorney and US Marine Corps veteran running to represent Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, before a speech to an audience at the American Legion Post 902 on January 13, 2018 in Houston, Pennsylvania in the southwestern corner of the state. President Donald Trump plans to visit Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District next week in a bid to help Lamb's republican opponent, Rick Saccone. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
Conor Lamb

Republicans are pulling out all the stops to save the House seat in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, a heavily gerrymandered seat Donald Trump won by 20 points in 2016.

The pro-House GOP Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC is prepping a $1.5 million TV campaign to save a vacant southwestern Pennsylvania seat.

The advertising campaign will begin on Friday and continue through the March 13 special election, according to a party strategist briefed on the plans. The super PAC has already begun a field deployment effort in the district.

Trump visited the district last week in support of the Republican candidate, state Rep. Rick Saccone, and Mike Pence is planning to visit on February 2. Because that’s where Republicans stand in 2018: fighting to save seats drawn to stay dark red. ......

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/22/pennsylvania-house-seat-rick-saccone-super-pac-354967

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/18/1733848/-Republicans-panicking-over-another-special-election-on-red-turf-send-in-Trump-to-save-the-day

[helmedon1974]

1. Didn't the court just decide that the Congressional

Maps in PA were illegal?

[blue neen]

2. Yes, but that doesn't apply to the Special Election in PA-18, which is in March.

It will apply for the November 2018 elections.