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Trump Wrong About Conor Lamb’s Vote on Pelosi

President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that a House Democrat from Pennsylvania voted for Nancy Pelosi as House speaker after promising that he would not vote for her.

In fact, Rep. Conor Lamb kept his promise. Lamb voted for Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts to be speaker.

, a a close March 2018 in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District — a conservative-leaning district that Trump won by 20 percentage points in 2016. In November 2018, Lamb his victory, winning a regular general election for a full two-year term in the newly constituted 17th district and helping the Democrats capture of the House. 

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