PA-07: Wild, Mackenzie each claim the center in Carbon County debate

FRANKLIN TWP., CARBON COUNTY, Pa. — In an hourlong debate Sunday, Democratic U.S. Rep. Susan Wild and her general election Republican opponent, state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, each cast themselves as a moderate running against a radical, meeting attacks with attacks.

In making her case for a fourth term representing the 7th District, Wild, D-Lehigh Valley, largely leaned on her record in Congress while attacking her opponent as “an extremist on women’s rights… on worker’s rights, on education.”

Mackenzie, while highlighting his record as a Republican representing the state House's 187th District, worked to tie Wild to President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, immigration and foreign policy, repeatedly referring to “failed policies of Joe Biden and Susan Wild.”

Given the debate’s setting at Blue Ridge Communications' TV studio, Mackenzie was eager to remind voters of a leaked video in which Wild said she was “dismayed” that Carbon County became part of her district because residents “drank the Trump Kool-Aid.”




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