Former Republican Ryan Croswell, who gave up his position as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice in February during a break with the Trump administration, announced that he was running for Congress in the Lehigh Valley – as a democrat.
Croswell, a 44-year-old sea veteran who was born in Pottsville, joins Carol Obando-Derstine Democrats I Lamont McClure trying to tear off the Republicans Rep. Ryan Mackenzie in the 7th Congress District in Pennsylvania.
“In Congress,” said Croswell, “I will work on reducing costs for hard -working Pennsylvania, protect health care as well as social benefits and medicare, which the seniors gained and fight political corruption and attacks on our democracy, rights and freedom.”
Croswell, who left GOP and became a democrat at the end of last year, raised the anger of both his opponents, who are now in the three -sided race for the democratic nomination.
“[Crosswell] There is a Republican all his life who has never lived in the Lehigh Valley “and spent time in Trump’s administration” attacking civil rights, “said McClure, director of Northampton.
And a statement published by the Bloodo-Derstine Office, the failure of the staff of the former US senator Bob Casey, said: “Voters do not want a republican parachute to this district. They want someone who understands their struggle.”
Crosswell won the renowned Department of Justice about the handling of New York mayor Eric Adams. Corrupts.
The Biden administration accused Adams on the charge of accepting bribes from Turkey. However, when Trump came to office, prosecutors were ordered drop the case After Adams committed to facilitate American immigration and customs enforcement agents, deporting undocumented immigrants.
Dale Ho District District Judge from giving up the case he wrote in his decision: “Everything here strikes the opportunity: rejecting the indictment in exchange for immigration policy licenses.”
Croswell, which has a little relationship with the Lehigh Valley, wrote in his own resignation letter that his superiors “explained that there would be professional consequences if the application [to dismiss the Adams case] He was not submitted. “
He added his website That “when Donald Trump tried to force prosecutors in my section to use the Department of Justice as a weapon against enemies, it was something that I would never do, so I gave up.”
He added that he intends to “stop the greatest threat that our democracy has ever known, even if he is the president of the United States.”
The stake is that the Democrat trio is fighting for Mackenza in Pennsylvania 7. Congress districtwhich represents the Ferrings of Carbon, Lehigh and Northampton and part of Monroe.
The race may have a significant impact on the balance of the USA house in the 2026 elections.
A former representative of the democratic USA Susan Wild, who took the place for three terms, before Mackenzie defeated her in November in one percentage point, supported Obando-Derstine.
While his opponents question the authenticity of the Croswell break with Trump and his emerging term in the Democratic Party, he is not so unusual, said Christopher Borick, a professor of political sciences and director Muhlenberg College College Institute of Public Opinion.
“During two Trump administrations, the departure of misunderstandings became more common,” he said
For example, Borick pointed out David JollyFormer Congressmen in Florida, who left the Republican party because of his rejection of Trump and is now running for the governor of his state as a democrat.
