Four Dems seek chance to challenge Reschenthaler or Saccone

The race for Pennsylvania’s bright red 14th Congressional District kicked off with a fiery opening shot on the Republican side, while a group of Democrats lined up for a chance to replicate Conor Lamb’s upset win last month in a similar district nearby.

Four political newcomers on the Democratic ticket and a pair of Republican state legislators will compete in the May 15 primaries in a Western Pennsylvania district — formerly the 18th, minus a blue swath of Allegheny County — that Donald Trump carried by 29 points in 2016. And though it is labeled safely Republican by several independent analysts, a battle of heavyweights in the GOP primary could leave either candidate vulnerable in November.

That’s the landscape that faces the Republicans, state Rep. Rick Saccone and state Sen. Guy Reschenthaler. One of them will square off in November against either emergency physician Bob Solomon, former Ford executive Bibiana Boerio, brain researcher Tom Prigg or psychologist Adam Sedlock.

The 14th District, which includes Washington, Greene and Fayette counties as well as a portion of Westmoreland County, is even more geographically friendly to the GOP than the current 18th, which, in a special election last month, went to Mr. Lamb by just a few hundred votes over Mr. Saccone.

And the bad blood might have already begun to flow in the Republican primary, with