Skylar Hurwitz

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Skylar Hurwitz

Democratic Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

June 2, 2020

Education

Bachelor's

American University

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Skylar Hurwitz (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.

Hurwitz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Hurwitz attended American University in Washington, D.C.

Elections

2020

See also: Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District election, 2020

Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primary)

Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1

Incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick defeated Christina Finello and Steve Scheetz in the general election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Brian Fitzpatrick (R)	56.6	249,804
		Christina Finello (D)	43.4	191,875
		Steve Scheetz (L) (Write-in)	0.0	0

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 441,679
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1

Christina Finello defeated Skylar Hurwitz in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1 on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Christina Finello	77.5	71,571
		Skylar Hurwitz	22.5	20,737

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 92,308
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Debbie Wachspress (D)
• Judi Reiss (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1

Incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick defeated Andrew Meehan in the Republican primary for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 1 on June 2, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Brian Fitzpatrick	63.3	48,017
		Andrew Meehan	36.7	27,895

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 75,912
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Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Skylar Hurwitz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hurwitz's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Skylar Hurwitz is a technology entrepreneur and environmentalist born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He split his youth equally between Yardley and New Hope-Solebury, worked in Washington, DC for nearly a decade, and has been running a small business in his hometown since 2018. As one of four boys raised by a single mother, he immediately recognized how out of touch our nation's leadership is with the challenges of the modern day working and middle class. His time in DC provided key insights into what is broken in Washington - and what must be done to fix the government so it starts working for everyday Americans again. Skylar gained experience working directly on Capitol Hill briefly serving in the office of Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney of New York and working on a SunShot initiative grant at the National Association of Regional Councils that focused on lowering the bureaucratic costs of solar installations. Skylar then spent nearly three years managing a $30 million grant portfolio and doing extensive international travel for Conservation International in Arlington, Virginia. The program protected the most vulnerable biodiverse regions on Earth by building the capacity of locals in those countries to manage problems self-sufficiently. This campaign is about uniting for a Fair Tax Platform that protects our planet and provides a more secure future for every American. Every policy proposed by this campaign can be paid for in a way that increases the annual disposable income for individuals making $250,000 or less and couples making $500,000 or less. Together, we can provide all Americans with a baseline level of security and stability that makes our communities safer.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Together, we will restore faith and trust in our government with a Fair Tax Platform that puts American workers first.

• As the job creators become automators, it is time corporations like Amazon begin paying their fair share in taxes like the rest of us.

• It's time our foreign policy focused on building allies and security through cooperation around shared challenges, not dropping bombs because of our differences.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

You and your family pay taxes each year, so why are companies like Amazon and Walmart paying 0% in taxes while their trucks use our public infrastructure and their workers rely on federal benefits to survive? On top of that, 2018 was the first year the top 400 individual earners in this country paid less in taxes than the middle class. Our campaign will fight to change the federal tax code so that large corporations stop draining federal resources and begin paying their fair share in taxes.

Quietly, Wall Street speculators are using computer programs to make lightning fast transactions that destabilize our financial system. Our campaign will introduce a speculative trading tax to these types of transactions on Wall Street.

By introducing fair tax policies that level the playing field and target risky behavior, our campaign will secure the funding necessary to implement every one of these platform proposals to protect working class Americans while combatting the national debt. Under our platform, individuals making up to $250,000 and couples making up to $500,000 jointly would see an increase in their annual disposable income and would benefit from our campaign's objectives of eliminating electricity bills by 2035, letting you access any doctor you want and eliminating medical debt and all health insurance premiums, copays, and deductibles by 2025 and providing healthy school meals and a complete education from pre-k through 4-year public college/trade school.

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Footnotes

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Pennsylvania's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

John Fetterman (D)

David McCormick (R)

Representatives

District 1

Brian Fitzpatrick (R)

District 2

Brendan Boyle (D)

District 3

Dwight Evans (D)

District 4

Madeleine Dean (D)

District 5

Mary Scanlon (D)

District 6

Chrissy Houlahan (D)

District 7

Ryan Mackenzie (R)

District 8

Rob Bresnahan (R)

District 9

Dan Meuser (R)

District 10

Scott Perry (R)

District 11

Lloyd Smucker (R)

District 12

Summer Lee (D)

District 13

John Joyce (R)

District 14

Guy Reschenthaler (R)

District 15

Glenn Thompson (R)

District 16

Mike Kelly (R)

District 17

Chris Deluzio (D)

Republican Party (11)

Democratic Party (8)