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Monday, May 14, 2018, the day before the Pennsylvania primary where he faces two other Republicans, Scott Wagner and Laura Ellsworth. . Paul Mango, right, Republican candidate for Pennsylvania Governor, attends a campaign rally with lieutenant governor candidate Diana Vaughn, in Canonsburg, Pa., Monday, May 14, 2018, a day before the Pennsylvania primary wher... Idaho Lt.
Paul Mango, Republican candidate for Pennsylvania Governor, campaigns in Canonsburg, Pa. Monday, May 14, 2018, the day before the Pennsylvania primary where he faces two other Republicans, Scott Wagner and Laura Ellsworth.
Attendees cheer as election numbers are reported during an election night rally for Conor Lamb, Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, not pictured, in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, on March 13. Suburban voters were a big part of Lamb's campaign strategy. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption Attendees cheer as election numbers are reported during an election night rally for Conor Lamb, Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, not pictured, in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, on March 13. Suburban voters were a big part of Lamb's campaign strategy.
Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District celebrates with his supporters at his election night party in Canonsburg, Pa., early Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Conor Lamb 's apparent victory Tuesday and the coinciding new map still roiling the delegation sets up an odd scenario and a rare middecade member-vs.-member race.
Rattled Republicans were hit with a day-after reality check Wednesday after the startlingly strong performance of a fresh-faced Democrat deep in Trump country.
Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, center, celebrates with his supporters at his election night party in Canonsburg, Pa., early Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
John Henninger, left, and Eric Larson, right, of Cecil Township, Pa., watches early returns at the election night party of Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, in Canonsburg, Pa., Tuesday, March 13, 2018. The Pennsylvania congressional race between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone remains too close to call, with local elections officials still counting absentee ballots late Tuesday.
Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, center, celebrates with his supporters at his election night party in Canonsburg, Pa., early Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, center, celebrates with his supporters at his election night party in Canonsburg, Pa., early Wednesday, March 14, 2018. MT. LEBANON, Pa.
John Henninger, left, and Eric Larson, right, of Cecil Township, Pa., watches early returns at the election night party of Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, in Canonsburg, Pa., Tuesday, March 13, 2018.
A closely watched and extremely expensive special congressional election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District remained too close to call late Tuesday. Such a tight margin will likely be seen as a major victory for the Democrat Conor Lamb, as President Donald Trump won the area in southwest Pennsylvania by nearly 20 points during the 2016 election cycle and in the last two cycles the Republican incumbent ran unopposed.
On the last day of the campaign for the special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, Donald Trump Jr. toured a candy factory in Washington County to urge locals to turn out for Rick Saccone, the Republican running for the House seat against Democrat Conor Lamb. Trump was the third member of his family to visit the district in the past few weeks in an all-out effort to help bring Saccone over a finish line that he has been lagging behind in the past 10 days.
If Democratic contender Conor Lamb wins Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District on Tuesday, it will send shock waves across the political landscape. President Trump won here by 20 percentage points in 2016, and many strategists see this mostly white, working-class district as a testing ground for the November midterms.
Polls are open in western Pennsylvania as voters settle a high profile special congressional race being watched for clues to the upcoming midterm elections. Republican Rick Saccone is trying to stave off an upset by Democrat Conor Lamb in a Pittsburgh-area district that backed President Donald Trump by 20 percentage points in 2016.
Democrat Conor Lamb, right, talks with some of his campaign volunteers at a campaign office in Carnegie, Pa., Wednesday, March 7, 2018. A special election in western Pennsylvania next week is shaping up as a test of the strength and loyalty of the modern-day labor movement.
Mike DeBess a planner and civil engineer for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District talks to municipality representatives during a flood summit at Washington City Council Municipality representitives and and county citizens fill Washington City Council chambers to present their issues with flooding to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and ... (more)
Attorney Clark Mitchell Jr., right, is congratulated by Bill Kiehl, Democratic committeeman and former chairman of Chartiers Township Board of Supervisors, after delegates voted Sunday afternoon at Canonsburg VFW Post 191.