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A super PAC backing U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb’s Democratic campaign for Senate in Pennsylvania made its first real foray into the race this week — and it didn’t go well.
BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania — Last week, a memo circulated by Penn Progress, a group supporting Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania's open-seat Senate race, warned donors that Lamb was trailing John Fetterman by 30 percentage points. At the time, many in Washington expressed shock that the golden child of the 2018 midterm elections was losing to the state’s sitting lieutenant governor, a man despised by his party's establishment.
Senate primaries in Pennsylvania are getting nastier by the day, with Republicans launching personal attacks in a race to the right and Democrats seemingly laying the groundwork for assaults over electability.
But Rep. Conor Lamb is spending heavily to make up ground in the U.S. Senate primary.