Bob Brooks (Pennsylvania)
Bob Brooks (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Brooks completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2026
See also: Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 7
The following candidates are running in the general election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 7 on November 3, 2026.
Candidate | ||
 | Ryan Mackenzie (R) | |
 | Bob Brooks (D)  | |
 | Ryan Crosswell (D) | |
 | Lamont McClure (D) | |
 | Carol Obando-Derstine (D) | |
 | Mark Pinsley (D) | |
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Endorsements
Brooks received the following endorsements. To view a full list of Brooks's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here. To send us additional endorsements, click here.
- U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (Independent)
Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Bob Brooks completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Brooks' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Affordability
The number one thing I hear from folks is how expensive life is. People can’t keep up with groceries, rent, healthcare, childcare, or utility bills. Wages aren’t keeping up, and too many are working harder than ever for too little.
Healthcare: Restore Medicaid cuts and provide Medicare for All. Housing: Build more market-rate homes, ban private equity from driving up costs, and extend VA-style home loans to essential workers. Childcare: Repeal Headstart cuts, expand subsidies and publicly funded preschool. Utilities: Invest in renewables, nuclear, and natural gas, and stop utility price-gouging.
Retirement & Goods: Protect Social Security, strengthen unions, and enforce antitrust rules to stop price-gouging. - Washington is a dumpster fire Washington’s broken, and working people are the ones getting burned. Billionaires and big corporations run the show while wages stay flat and costs keep climbing. I’ve lived a working-class life. there was a time a blue-collar job could support a family. it doesn’t anymore. We need to take money out of politics, end stock trading in Congress, enforce term limits, and make the wealthy pay their fair share. I know the struggle, and I’m running to fight for working families and get Washington working for us again.
- One Big Beautiful Bill The Big Beautiful Bill was the biggest cut to benefits in U.S. history. Head Start, SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare all got slashed, and Ryan Mackenzie’s vote made it happen. I know how important these programs because I grew up on Head Start and SNAP. My campaign will hold him accountable, fight to repeal these cuts, and push policies that actually help working families, like paid family leave, public pre-K, and Medicare for All. Working people deserve a government that has their back and they deserve to see Ryan Mackenzie kicked out of office for all the wrong he's done.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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