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Dasha Pruett
Dasha Pruett (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District. She was disqualified from the Republican primary scheduled on April 23, 2024.
Pruett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dasha Pruett was born in Moscow, Russia, and came to the United States with her family in 1980. She lives in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.[1] Dasha Pruett's career experience includes working as an office manager and photographer.[2]
Elections
2024
See also: Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District election, 2024
Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District election, 2024 (April 23 Republican primary)
Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District election, 2024 (April 23 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5
Incumbent Mary Gay Scanlon defeated Alfe Goodwin in the general election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mary Gay Scanlon (D) | 65.2 | 267,754 |
![]() | Alfe Goodwin (R) ![]() | 34.6 | 142,355 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 828 |
Total votes: 410,937 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5
Incumbent Mary Gay Scanlon advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mary Gay Scanlon | 99.2 | 70,068 |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.8 | 555 |
Total votes: 70,623 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5
Alfe Goodwin advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Alfe Goodwin ![]() | 98.5 | 37,361 |
Other/Write-in votes | 1.5 | 558 |
Total votes: 37,919 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dasha Pruett (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Pruett in this election.
2022
See also: Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1
Incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick defeated Ashley Ehasz, Caroline Avery, and Henry Conoly in the general election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Brian Fitzpatrick (R) | 54.9 | 201,571 |
Ashley Ehasz (D) ![]() | 45.1 | 165,809 | ||
![]() | Caroline Avery (L) (Write-in) ![]() | 0.0 | 0 | |
Henry Conoly (G) (Write-in) ![]() | 0.0 | 0 |
Total votes: 367,380 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1
Ashley Ehasz advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Ashley Ehasz ![]() | 100.0 | 79,546 |
Total votes: 79,546 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Eric Bruno (D)
- Paul Fermo (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1
Incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick defeated Alex Entin in the Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Brian Fitzpatrick | 65.6 | 60,502 |
Alex Entin | 34.4 | 31,772 |
Total votes: 92,274 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dasha Pruett (R)
- Bradley Lanning (R)
Endorsements
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2020
See also: Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District election, 2020
Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Republican primary)
Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5
Incumbent Mary Gay Scanlon defeated Dasha Pruett in the general election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mary Gay Scanlon (D) | 64.7 | 255,743 |
![]() | Dasha Pruett (R) ![]() | 35.3 | 139,552 |
Total votes: 395,295 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5
Incumbent Mary Gay Scanlon advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mary Gay Scanlon | 100.0 | 103,194 |
Total votes: 103,194 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Louis Lanni (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5
Dasha Pruett defeated Robert Jordan in the Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Dasha Pruett ![]() | 61.5 | 31,734 |
![]() | Robert Jordan | 38.5 | 19,890 |
Total votes: 51,624 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Joe Billie (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Dasha Pruett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Pruett's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|Dasha wants to bring our American values and our community concerns back to the forefront of this office. We need to replace career politicians with candidates who will fight for the American people, our beautiful Country, and our Constitution. Our Country is broken, and we must fix it for our children and future generations. We must stop the illegal immigrant invasion of our border! We have immigration laws in place, though they are not being enforced. Our crime is up, the fentanyl deaths are at the highest levels; our veterans are homeless, fighting for their VA benefits, as illegals receive free housing, monthly stipends, free healthcare, and education. We must put our American citizens first. With the indoctrination of our children through propaganda, destruction of our small business, skyrocketing inflation, shortages of goods, as well as attacks on our American values, our Constitution, and our freedom; Dasha cannot sit quietly and let it happen. She understands firsthand the devastation that it will create within this country and to its people. She is running for US Congress to fight for her community, its citizens, to preserve the country she loves and to save The American Dream.
- Border Security, Immigration - As a legal immigrant, who went through all of the proper channels, it breaks my heart to watch the run on our border. This is an invasion. There is something nefarious going on. If we do not stop this, we will have another 911. Our citizens are dying from fentanyl overdoses, the crime is overwhelming, our jobs are going to the illegal immigrants and not our citizens. This is spiraling out of control. We must put an end to this. American citizens first.
- Inflation, sending our tax money to other countries. As our families barely make ends meet with the sky rocketing inflation, lack of goods, our grocery bills doubling, etc... We continue to send hundreds of billions of dollars to other countries, yet turn the blind eye to our own citizens. We pay taxes to fund other countries, ignoring the needs of our own people.
- School choice. Our children are our future. Every child deserves top education despite of where they live, economic class, or any other challenges.
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Campaign website
Pruett’s campaign website stated the following:
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Pro Capitalism- Anti Socialism Low Taxes Fair Trade Energy Independence Jobs Pro Family and Family Values Fight Addiction Competitive Healthcare Pro-Life Security First Responders Military |
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—Dasha Pruett’s campaign website (2024)[4] |
2022
Dasha Pruett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Pruett's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|I am The American Dream. Immigrating here as a child in 1980 from USSR, fleeing political and religious persecution, I experienced both totalitarianism in USSR and freedom in America, instilling a true appreciation for America as the land of liberty and opportunity. With the loss of energy independence, the crisis at our borders, propaganda and cancel culture in the media, indoctrination of our children, destruction of small business, skyrocketing inflation, shortages of goods, as well as attacks on our American values, our Constitution, and our freedom, I cannot sit quietly and let it happen. I understand firsthand the devastation that it will create within this country and to its people. I was elected as a Republican US Congressional candidate in 2020 in the PA-5 district, beating my opponent in the Primary Election by 62%. My team ran a dynamic campaign with multiple high-profile endorsements, such as Steamfitters Local 420 Union, Huckabee PAC, Gun Owners of America, Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, Senator Doug Mastriano, Sarah Palin, Firearms Owners Against Crime, and U.S. Impact, to name a few.
I am committed to fight for this community, to save the country and to preserve The American Dream for our future generations.- America and our Citizens first
- Reduce the size and reach of our Government
- Capitalism over Socialism
American and our citizens first
Capitalism vs. Socialism
Reduce the Size & Reach of Government
Energy Independence & Reducing Regulations
Lower Taxes, Pro Small Business & Community Growth
Pro School Choice & Limiting Teachers Union Overreach
Support Legal Immigration & Securing Our Borders
Pro Life, Support Heartbeat Bill & Adoption
Reform Healthcare Through Competitive Marketplace
Support our Military, Police, First Responder's & Veterans
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2020
Dasha Pruett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Pruett's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|Dasha has always been deeply involved in helping others. She volunteered at Jeanes Hospital when she was 14, and from that point, sat on various non for-profit boards and organizations that support private adoption, fight domestic violence, support educational organizations, as well as the local arts. Dasha is a mother to two successful children, Nicholas and Katherine. She and her husband reside in Drexel Hill with their feline and canine fur babies.
- Lower Taxes, Pro business Growth and Supporting our Community
- Creating jobs and fixing our failing infrastructure
- Fighting for our Community, Our Citizens and Our American Dream
Pro Capitalism - Anti Socialism;
Dedicated to lowering taxes by reducing unnecessary spending; as well as promoting new business and local growth;
Pro term limits;
Dedicated to defending our constitution;
Dedicated to defending or second amendment; and working on a solution to reduce violence by focusing on mental health;
Support our military and our veterans by helping with job training after service as well as job placement, providing resources to treating PTSD and other medical needs, providing family support;
Support competitive healthcare marketplace as well as group health cooperative, where small business owners and individuals can buy in to a group health insurance;
Support apprenticeship/vocational schools/ job re-training;
Pro school choice;
Support heartbeat bill (a fetus in the womb is considered a life, once the heartbeat is detected);
Support ending government funding of Planned Parenthood and using portion of those funds for Child Welfare Services;
Pro-family and family values;
Dedicated to finding a solution in fighting drug addiction, particularly Opioid epidemic by providing accessible treatment centers that will focus on issues that are the root of addiction, as well as providing support to the family, vs safe injections sites that will bring crime to those neighborhoods;
Support our local community and their individual concerns;
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Candidate U.S. House Pennsylvania District 5 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 14, 2020
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 18, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Dasha for United States Congress, “Issues,” accessed March 9, 2024