Morning Digest: Two PA district attorneys could lose Democratic primaries but win as Republicans

_{The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from Daniel Donner, David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert and David Beard.}

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● Allegheny & Northampton counties, PA District Attorneys: Two district attorneys based in opposite ends of Pennsylvania―Allegheny County’s Stephen Zappala and Northampton County’s Terry Houck―face serious challenges from the left in their Democratic primaries, but each may still be on the November general election ballot anyway as Republicans. That’s because local GOP voters don’t have any candidates to choose from in these races, and each incumbent could collect enough write-in Republican votes to advance to November even if their actual party rejects them.