PITTSBURGH — Republican state Rep. Rob Mercuri said Tuesday he would seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. House seat held by freshman Democrat Chris Deluzio in what is projected to be one of the nation's most competitive congressional races in the country next year.
Mercuri said in an interview he knows it won’t be easy but that he has run before in a seat that people expected Democrats to win.“I think as a West Point-trained veteran, it's about leadership, and I'm going to be fighting for our region and really to restore the American dream in the hearts and minds of people, “ said Mercuri, a western Pennsylvania native who owns a small business in Pittsburgh's northern suburbs with his wife.
Mercuri said he understood in 2020 that voters were looking for a candidate who was running to represent the needs of the district, not to represent the whims of any political party. Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District is complex; it is fairly evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, and the voters here don’t seem to have much of an appetite for representation from an extreme from either party.
The political mood here has evolved since 2020 with changing demographics from voters fleeing the city and leaning Democratic despite unhappiness over Democratic politics that had caused them to leave the city of Pittsburgh, a shift that has the Cook Political Report currently listing the seat as"leans Democrat."
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