When Pennsylvania Democrat Matt Cartwright finally lost in 2024, some in his party began to write off his Northeast Pennsylvania district as gone for good. For a decade, Cartwright had defied gravity: a University of Pennsylvania and London School of Economics-educated lawyer and member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who won six terms in an increasingly Republican region.
But after Cartwright fell to local businessman Rob Bresnahan, a fresh face half his age, national and Pennsylvania Democrats turned their focus to other House races in the Keystone State and beyond.
All that has changed in the past year, as the…
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