Starkville Daily News

4 states decide primaries; Trump's Senate pick wins in Pa.

- By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press

Tuesday's primary elections will begin to settle swing state Pennsylvan­ia's chaotic congressio­nal landscape after a court fight ended with redrawn districts just three months ago.

Pennsylvan­ia primary voters selected President Donald Trump's pick to be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. Idaho voters are set to pick their Republican gubernator­ial nominee, while heavily Republican Nebraska and Democratic-leaning Oregon are also holding primaries Tuesday.

A look at one of the key races:

PENNSYLVAN­IA SCRAMBLE

Republican­s outnumber Democrats in Pennsylvan­ia's House delegation, though a new congressio­nal map is making the state a focal point of Democrats' effort to reclaim House control in November.

Eighty-four candidates are running in 18 House districts in light of new courtorder­ed redrawn congressio­nal district maps in February. That's more than any time since 1984, when Pennsylvan­ia had 23 seats in the House.

Five of Pennsylvan­ia's 13 GOP House members have quit or are not running again, helping create seven House vacancies, the most in Pennsylvan­ia since 1976.

Moderate Charlie Dent is abandoning Pennsylvan­ia's new 7th District, where Hillary Clinton received more votes than Trump, who carried Pennsylvan­ia. Six Democrats are running in this district, which reunified Democratic-leaning cities in the east and cut out some of Republican-leaning central Pennsylvan­ia.

Ten Democrats are running in suburban Philadelph­ia's 5th District, where Rep. Patrick Meehan resigned last month amid allegation­s he sexually harassed a former employee and where Clinton also beat Trump.

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