{"id":37034,"date":"2025-03-26T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/democrats-hold-pennsylvania-state-house-with-special-election-win\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:06:43","slug":"democrats-hold-pennsylvania-state-house-with-special-election-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/democrats-hold-pennsylvania-state-house-with-special-election-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats hold Pennsylvania state House with special election win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Democratic Party will take control of the Pennsylvania State House<\/a> after securing an additional seat in a special election on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Democrat Dan Goughnor<\/a> won out over Republican Charles Davis in a landslide 63-to-35-point victory. Control over the Pennsylvania Senate remains up in the air, with the race uncalled-for as Democrat James Malone leads Republican Josh Parsons by less than one percent.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania State House had been deadlocked, with Republicans and Democrats both controlling 101 seats prior to Tuesday’s election.<\/p>\n

Democrats had lost their razor-thin majority in January after the death of state Rep. Matt Gergerly.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATS FAR FROM THRILLED ON POSSIBLE BIDEN POLITICAL REEMERGENCE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The House race is the fifth straight special election that Democrats have won so far in 2025, despite the party performing dismally in polls.<\/p>\n

POLL POSITION: DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S NUMBERS PLUNGE TO ALL-TIME LOWS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The party’s favorable rating sank to all-time lows in separate national polls conducted this month by CNN and NBC News. Those numbers followed a record low for Democrats in a Quinnipiac University survey in the field in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additionally, the latest Fox News National poll<\/u><\/a>, which was released last week, indicated that congressional Democrats’ approval rating at 30%, near an all-time low. And Democrat activists are irate over their party’s inability to blunt President Donald Trump’s agenda.<\/p>\n

While Democrats were heavily favored in Tuesday’s state House race, they had less of an advantage in the state Senate race.<\/p>\n

GOP state Sen. Ryan Aument stepped down in December to work as state director for newly elected U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, a fellow Republican.<\/p>\n

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Regardless of the election results, the GOP will continue to control the state Senate, where they currently hold a 27-22 majority.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser and the Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Democratic Party will take control of the Pennsylvania State House after securing an additional seat in a special election on Tuesday night. Democrat Dan Goughnor won out over Republican Charles Davis in a landslide 63-to-35-point victory. Control over the Pennsylvania Senate remains up in the air, with the race uncalled-for as Democrat James Malone … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}