His campaign has hauled in thousands from far-left groups, including End Citizens United, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and Service Employees International Union. Lamb also landed an endorsement from the gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety while getting an " F" rating from the NRA's Political Victory Fund. He boasts a 100 percent rating from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and a 93 percent rating from the Human Rights Campaign. "Conor Lamb proves running as a moderate is a winning strategy," the Hill wrote that same year.īut Lamb's record tells a different story. Liberal strategists and media alike have thus treated him as a model for Democrats running in tough races. "This moderate Democrat's model is being copied where it matters-in Trump territory," reads a headline from McClatchy in 2018. He opposes the Green New Deal, which is highly unpopular in his district, and has gone against calls from Ocasio-Cortez to end fracking, a major industry in Western Pennsylvania. Lamb has publicly distanced himself from the far left on certain issues, especially the environment. Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) 90 percent of the time, according to a vote tracking tool from ProPublica. Lamb's positions have garnered him endorsements from numerous left-wing groups, including Everytown for Gun Safety, Feminist Majority PAC, and JStreetPAC. All this belies the centrist image he projects to Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District, where Lamb is locked in a tight race against Republican Sean Parnell. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) 89 percent of the time, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) 88 percent of the time, Reps. In his first two years since entering Congress, Lamb has voted with Rep. Yet he votes with members of the far-left "Squad" almost 90 percent of the time. First-term representative Conor Lamb (D., Pa.) portrays himself as a moderate in his competitive Pennsylvania district.
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