Lawmakers in Pennsylvania’s two-seat House majority have shown what it looks like to effectively govern and deliver for constituents. The House majority has created momentum for lawmakers in both chambers to pass policies with bipartisan support that:
While these policies have been signed into law, many others have been stalled by the rightwing majority in the Senate, including the first minimum wage increase in more than a decade, paid family leave, and consumer protections like ending surprise fees that cost families an extra $90 million per year.
In order for lawmakers focused on improving the lives of Pennsylvanians to have the power they need to deliver the most impactful policies possible, we must both defend the two-seat House majority and build a new majority in the Senate this November.
We believe building a new trifecta in Pennsylvania for the first time in more than twenty years is possible this fall. To do it, we must defend the two-seat House majority and flip three seats in the Senate to flip the chamber.
The path to achieving these goals will be challenging — in 2022, the race that decided control of the House came down to just 63 votes! — but we know what it will take. The States Project has been on the ground, year-after-year, building the relationships, expertise, and infrastructure needed to win.
The results we’ve driven speak for themselves. In 2024, a year when every statewide election in Pennsylvania went to the rightwing and maintaining the House majority should have been impossible, we successfully defended every seat, including in some districts that went overwhelmingly for Trump. In fact, the results we drove in Pennsylvania defied historical trends.
Typically, state legislative candidates underperform the top-of-the-ticket by about 5%. But in 2024, in three Pennsylvania House districts, state legislative candidates overperformed Vice President Harris by double digits — including a district TSP helped hold by 2.6 percent that Trump won by more than 30 percent. About 3,000 voters across these three key seats made the difference in defending the House majority.
Unlocking a trifecta in Pennsylvania is within reach, but with margins this close, we can’t afford to leave anything on the table. That’s why the work must start now.
We invested over three times more than the next largest national coordinated funder to successfully defend every incumbent district and preserve the House majority and hold ground in the Senate. About 500 votes decided the closest race in the House chamber — reflecting the crucial work done to shore up these incumbent races in a tough national environment.
In 2022, The States Project bet big in Pennsylvania — investing 80 times more than the next largest contributor to caucuses and candidates in the Pennsylvania House. After every ballot was counted, we helped gain 12 new seats for a new majority in the Pennsylvania House for the first time since 2010.
In The States Project’s first cycle in Pennsylvania, we helped hold ground in both chambers. Our work helped gain a new House district, which had been held by Republicans ever since it was created in 1969. We also helped to gain a new seat in the Senate.
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