Democratic Socialist Chris Rabb wins Democratic primary in Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District
On Tuesday, May 19, Pennsylvania State Representative Chris Rabb, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District. Rabb faced three other opponents in the primary and won handily, with 44.7 percent of the vote. Sharif Street, son of former Philadelphia mayor John Street, the preferred candidate of the Democratic Party establishment, placed second with 29.2 percent.
Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, which encompasses significant working class areas in Philadelphia, is by some measures the most Democratic Party-leaning district in the country. Rabb faces no Republican opponent in November, so he is the certain successor to retiring Democrat Dwight Evans.
Rabb won his congressional seat posturing as a political outsider, declaring in an interview with the DSA-aligned Jacobin magazine, “Socialists need to expose the role of both parties in our crisis and point toward a future where the working class h…