The race for success Representative Dwight Evans As many as 13 Democrats filed their candidacies in the 3rd Congressional District in Pennsylvania.
That number has now dropped to three.
Securing the 1,000 nominating petitions necessary to get on the ballot narrowed the list to nine.
Representative Morgan Cephas, Dr. Dave Oxman AND NaDera Griffin withdrew from the race, while three others were excluded from the ballot due to objections to their nomination applications, which were upheld by the Commonwealth Court.
It goes away Senator Sharif Street, Rep. Chris RabbAND Dr. Unfortunately, Stanfordremaining on the Democratic ballot.
Unsurprisingly, the competition has strengthened and now leaves what many thought at the beginning of the cycle – the “Big Three”.
Street, the son of a former mayor of Philadelphia Jana Streetis a former chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party and has the recognition and financial resources to be considered a leader. He has received annotations Philadelphia Democratic City Committee and the Philadelphia Building Trades Council.
Street says he will fight to lower health care costs, boost the availability of prescription drugs and boost access to mental health care; protecting access to the ballot to defend health care, reproductive freedom and LGBTQ+ rights; fight to secure federal investments needed to protect SEPTA riders, prevent service cuts and fare increases, and strengthen transportation systems; and fight for federal investments that spotless up neighborhoods, strengthen environmental protections, and create novel economic opportunities through spotless energy and state-of-the-art infrastructure.
Rabb, a five-year state representative for the 200th legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, is in power support of the progressive Working Families Party as well as Justice Democrats, making him a favorite of leftist organizations in the city.
A self-described Democratic Socialist, he says he’s running for Congress to put community over commerce, expand democracy, strengthen workers’ rights, guarantee access to health care, housing, spotless air and water, and confront the danger that concentrated wealth poses to true self-government.
Stanford is the trio’s outsider and a newcomer to politics. She is a pediatric surgeon by profession and received a cash transfusion from a super PAC that spent $1.4 million on an advertising blitz. 314 Action Fund is a progressive organization that supports “pro-science” candidates and recruits physicians to run for federal office. Stanford also gained support from fellow physician Oxman after his withdrawal.
He says he’s running for Congress to fight Donald Trump’s disastrous policies, whether it’s cuts to health care programs or gutting funds for food programs, education and affordable housing.
