His Bucks County district seems like it should be a top-target and yet no one is running. It's not like NY-1 (Zeldin's seat) where you have two A-list recruits who want to run and are just sorting out which of them is going to jump in ahead of time so that there isn't a major primary battle between close allies. It's also not a district like AR-2 or OH-16 (or hell, even OH-1) that Democrats should really be targeting, but might not because it seems tough on paper. Fitzpatrick also isn't some sort of long-time incumbent like LoBiondo, so what's up with this district? Is this just a huge recruiting failure or is there something else going on that some of our PA posters could shed a light on?
Apparently, Fred Thiele and Kate Browning had both been looking at this race and trying to sort out which of them would run here (I think Browning is stronger and would probably beat Zeldin if the environment in 2018 is anything like it has been during the cycle thus far). I say that because as I was typing this post, I just read that Thiele announced he wouldn't run in NY-1 yesterday and that Browning – who just switched her party registration from Working Families to Democratic – said earlier today that she will announce her plans next week, so I suspect she's going to jump in soon.
According to politics1, there are already several Democrats running in the New York 1st U.S House district
District 1:
Lee Zeldin (R)* - (Campaign Site)
Kate Browning (D) - Suffolk County Legislator & Ex-School Bus Driver (potential candidate)
Elaine DiMasi (D) - Physicist
Perry Gershon (D) - Lending Corporation Executive
Brendon Henry (D)
Will Newman (D)
Viral Patel (D) - Physician (potential candidate)
David Pechefsky (D) - Ex-NYC Council Aide, Political Consultant & '09 NYC Council Candidate
Vivian Viloria Fisher (D) - Ex-Suffolk County Legislator & Retired Teacher
http://www.politics1.com/ny.htm
