This is one of a series of articles looking at political ads leading up to the Nov. 8 election.
Democratic Congresswoman Susan Wild faces Republican challenger Lisa Scheller on Nov. 8 in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, which covers all of Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties and a small part of Monroe County.
It’s expected to be a tight race that could determine which party claims control of the House of Representatives. Election forecaster FiveThirtyEight rates the race a tossup, and a recent Muhlenberg College/Morning Call poll calls it a statistical “dead heat.”
Congressional redistricting following the 2020 census made the race more of a challenge for Wild, who has held the seat since 2018. The 7th District now contains all of Carbon County, where Republicans outnumber Democrats 3-1.
Before being elected, Wild was a solicitor for Allentown and partner with Allentown firm Gross McGinley. Scheller, who also ran against Wild in 2020, is president and chairperson of international pigments manufacturing company Silberline Manufacturing in Tamaqua.
The ad, which is funded by the Republican Super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund, opens with a voiceover: “A young boy, brutally raped by his counselor.” The voiceover then asks, “And whose side was Susan Wild on? The hospital’s.”
The ad claims that Wild defended a hospital where the...
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