SCOTT TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — On Tuesday, a suburban Pittsburgh Democrat announced he was challenging Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), a Scranton Democrat and three-term incumbent, for the party’s nomination in next year's U.S. Senate primary.
Reported by Penn Live's J.D. Prose on Tuesday, Blaine Forkner, 43, described himself as an engineer and “two-time cancer survivor” who plans on running on a progressive platform of universal healthcare, gun reform, affordable education, and free tuition for college students.Forkner says on his website he is not a career politician but “an engineer, husband and father who is tired of career politicians and the status quo of Washington politics,” a reference to Casey’s longevity in office.
Casey, who announced his reelection campaign this past spring, has handily won every general election campaign he has competed in, in 2006, 2012, and 2018, all very good years for Democrats in both Pennsylvania and around the country. Millersville University political science professor G. Terry Madonna called Forkner's bid a quixotic one that stands little chance of gaining any momentum in the coming months.
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