Harvie Defeats Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania’s 1st District

Democrat Bob Harvie defeated Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District, with the Associated Press calling the race for Harvie at 12:37 a.m. EST on November 4. The result unseats Fitzpatrick, who had held the seat for five terms, and gives Democrats a pickup in a closely watched district in the Philadelphia suburbs. Harvie is a Bucks County commissioner. The county’s live, unofficial results showed him with 29,179 votes to Fitzpatrick’s 25,735, with 205 write-in votes. Bucks County said the results remained unofficial pending certification by its Board of Elections. A separate early-results snapshot reported Harvie at 52.7% and Fitzpatrick at 47.3%. Another report, based on 94% of ballots counted, put Harvie at 52.6% and Fitzpatrick at 47.4%. Those figures describe snapshots at different reporting stages, rather than certified final totals. During the campaign, Harvie criticized Fitzpatrick for not holding public town halls and for not doing enough to challenge President Donald Trump, particularly on affordability issues. Fitzpatrick emphasized his record of bipartisanship and cited his proposed Never Again International Outbreak...