How Did Rabb Trounce Street In PA’s 3rd District Primary?

By Lawrence McGlynn, Denise Clay & Lance Haver ● Watch Our Weekly Show ● May 21, 2026

The Hall Monitor team unpacked Tuesday’s surprise primary election results in Pennsylvania’s 3rd district, in our livesteam this week on YouTube.

Hosts Larry McGlynn, Denise Clay-Murray, and Lance Haver analyzed the primary election results and looked at all the variables that may have contributed to State Rep. Chris Rabb’s victory on May 19, including voter turnout.

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Authors

Lawrence McGlynn

Larry McGlynn is a journalist and producer for the Philadelphia Hall Monitor. He is a 2019 graduate of the Temple University Master of Journalism program, where he was a Reporting Fellow for Temple’s online news outlet, Philadelphia Neighborhoods. Before entering the world of journalism, he was an English teacher. McGlynn lives in West Philadelphia with his wife, Chrissy, son Owen, and cats.

Denise Clay

Denise Clay-Murray is the co-host of Philadelphia Hall Monitor. In addition to her hosting duties, she has been an independent journalist since 2005, and has covered politics in Philadelphia for a variety of news outlets including the Philadelphia Sunday Sun, Philadelphia Magazine, Love Now Media, Resolve Philadelphia, City and State Pennsylvania and Billy Penn. Her work has also appeared on the BBC World Service, the Australian Broadcasting Company, Votebeat and Time.com.

Denise previously covered politics and education for the Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, the Reading Eagle-Times, the Bucks County Courier Times, and the Philadelphia Tribune. She is a graduate of Temple University’s Klein School of Journalism and lives in Wilmington, Delaware with her husband Chris.

Lance Haver

Lance Haver has been a consumer advocate for over 40 years. He was the director of the nations largest grass root consumer group, served as the Consumer Advocate for the City of Philadelphia, a cabinet level position, was an on air commentator for KYW -tv and channel 48. Before becoming Hall Monitor’s consumer reporter, Lance was an on air “trouble shooter” for WPVI’s “Call For Action”. His writing has appeared widely in the Philadelphia media market.

Lance lives, with his wife Lisa, an education advocate, in South Philadelphia.

Authors

Lawrence McGlynn

Denise Clay

Lance Haver

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