Quick Facts:
Only one Republican and five Democrats agreed to participate. The remaining candidates vying to represent 10 House seats apparently couldn’t be bothered.
Prokopiak managed to outperform every major recent statewide Democratic nominee in Tuesday’s contest. Considering the stakes of the race, with control of the State House in the balance, that’s a particularly impressive feat.
Tuesday’s special election saw local voters decisively reject the extremist MAGA agenda, choosing instead to embrace protecting abortion rights, expanding workers’ rights, and defending public education.
His opponent, Candace Cabanas, isn’t advertising to voters that she is a Republican and won’t share her personal views on abortion (which the PA GOP attempted to ban through the state constitution via an amendment).
