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PA Dems Have Put Israel-Hamas On The November Ballot

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After her win on Tuesday night, Lee said, “Our victory is a rejection of right-wing interests and Republican billionaires using corporate Super PACs to target Black and brown Democrats in our primaries — be it AIPAC or Moderate PAC or any other MAGA billionaire in Democratic clothing.”

Republican Senatorial Candidate Dave McCormick has portrayed incumbent Democrat Bob Casey as aligned with 12th District Congresswoman Summer Lee.

McClelland

In the biggest surprise of all, on Tuesday, Erin McClelland won the Democratic Primary for State Treasurer, defeating Ryan Bizzarro, who had been endorsed by the Pennsylvania Democratic Committee. She will face incumbent Republican Stacy Garrity, who was unopposed in the primary.

Republicans will no doubt  depict McClelland as Anti-Israel,  for remarks she made in February that were critical of the $20 million worth of Israel Bonds that Garrity purchased on behalf of the state, a few days after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. 

In February,  Spotlight reported that Erin McClelland, a former project manager for the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, said it’s important to take the reality of the war into account, citing Moody Investors Service’s decision to downgrade Israel’s credit rating — which measures investment risk.

“Fiscal policy, monetary policy, investment policy is incredibly complicated and dynamic, and we need thoughtful honest brokers doing this,” McClelland told Spotlight PA in an interview. “And if you’re going to do it for a performance, because it’s politically expedient and you need that to get reelected because it just so happens to be populist, I don’t buy into that.”