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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 with Scheller slightly favored.
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 66% of voters chose former President Donald Trump in 2020.
Before being elected, Wild was a solicitor for Allentown. Scheller, who also ran against Wild in 2020, is CEO of international pigments manufacturing company Silberline Manufacturing in Tamaqua.
Wild’s ad aims to paint Silberline in a negative light by highlighting its ties to China and a supposedly false claim from Scheller about her 2020 salary.
The ad opens with a clip from Scheller’s address in October 2020 at the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation Congressional forum, in which she says, “the first thing I did was I took my salary to zero” at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The voiceover calls this a lie, and...
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