As candidates for state attorney general began to boast endorsements, some reporting seven-digit bankrolls, all three Democratic candidates said this year’s race presented a better-than-usual opportunity for a Democrat to win the seat of Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor for the first time in history.
After Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed, a Republican, was poised to receive the endorsement of Gov. Tom Corbett last week, his party opponent — State Sen. John C. Rafferty Jr., R-Montgomery — announced he would be suspending his campaign for the Republican nomination. Facing three viable opponents, it was unclear whether the GOP had advanced or taken a step backwards in the apparent unification.
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