HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three races for the U.S. House of Representatives in Pennsylvania remained uncalled by The Associated Press on Wednesday as vote counting continued and Republicans fought to maintain their slim majority in the chamber.
A majority in the House of Representatives would give the Republican Party full power in Congress, alongside newly-elected President Donald Trump in the White House.
In all three uncalled races in Pennsylvania, the Republican candidate held a slight lead with some votes still outstanding.
One uncalled race was the contest in a district in Allentown in eastern Pennsylvania, where three-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Susan Wild conceded to Republican Ryan Mackenzie.
Mackenzie is a member of the House of Representatives. Democrats have a slight registration advantage in the district, but the wide political divide has made Wild a constant target for Republicans.
Also a race in a northeastern Pennsylvania district around Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, where six-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright tried to fend off Republican Rob Bresnahan, a first-time candidate and developer who runs a family construction business in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Bresnahan claimed victory early Wednesday morning.
Democrats have a slight registration advantage in the district, but voters there supported Trump in the 2020 presidential election, making Cartwright just one of five Democrats nationally running for reelection in a Trump district.
The other uncalled race is in southern Pennsylvania, where Republican Rep. Scott Perry is seeking a seventh term in his Republican-leaning district surrounding the cities of Harrisburg and York.
He is being challenged by Janelle Stelson, a longtime local TV news anchor turned Republican turned Democrat.
Perry chaired the Freedom Caucus, a hardline faction of conservatives, and was the only lawmaker to have his cell phone seized by FBI agents investigating the web of Trump loyalists at the center of his attempt to oust him. to stay in power in 2020. Perry has not been charged with a crime.
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, fourteen other incumbents were re-elected.
