PA-09: Could It Be An Indicator Of Other Fall Races?
The 9th Congressional District is comprised of 12 counties, stretching from the city of Reading in Berks County to the borough of Towanda in Bradford County. Rep. Dan Meuser holds the seat in Congress, winning convincingly by 41 points in 2024 and helping President Donald Trump to a 38-point margin over former President Joe Biden in the state.
Meuser is in search of his fifth term in Washington and faces a new opponent in the fall in Democrat Rachel Wallace. The Pottsville native started out working for Congressman Tim Holden and went on to serve in the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Senate, and the White House, where she was Chief of Staff for the Office of Management and Budget.
A Tavern Research poll commissioned by Wallace, 38, shows her trailing the incumbent Republican by 25 points, 53-28%. But Meuser, 62, who served as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Revenue from 2011-15, received 70.5% of the vote two years ago. His 2024 opponent – Amanda Waldman – received 29.5% of the vote which was a bit smaller than the 30.7% she garnered in 2022.
What makes things interesting is that without having spent a dollar on paid media and having more than twice Meuser’s cash on hand entering the summer, Wallace is already polling at Waldman’s numbers from two years ago with room to grow.
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