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Chris Rabb, a Democrat and democratic socialist who has represented the 200th district in the Pennsylvania House since 2017, is the nominee for Pennsylvania's open 3rd congressional district in 2026 against independent Dennis Mahoney.
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Chris Rabb was born on February 21, 1970, in Chicago to Maurice Rabb Jr., an ophthalmologist and professor, and Madeline Murphy Rabb, who was politically active.
His maternal grandfather, William H. Murphy Sr., was a judge in Baltimore, and his great-great-grandfather John H. Murphy Sr., who was born into slavery, founded the Baltimore Afro-American in 1892.
Rabb began his undergraduate studies at Yale University in 1988, where he was instrumental in the removal of an image of a shackled slave from the common room of Calhoun College, and he received his bachelor's degree in 1992.
He later moved to Philadelphia and earned a master's degree in organizational dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. He has two sons and lives in East Mount Airy.
In the early 1990s Chris Rabb worked as an aide to U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun, and he then worked for the Clinton administration on the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business.
He has taught a business course at Temple University and in 2010 published the book Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity.
In 2016 he defeated incumbent state representative Tonyelle Cook-Artis in a three-way Democratic primary for the 200th district, 47% to 40%, and won the general election with 94% of the vote.
He has represented the district since 2017, winning the 2018 primary over Melissa Scott and running unopposed in 2020 and 2024.
In the legislature he has served on committees including Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Commerce and the Judiciary, introduced and passed bills in the House to repeal the death penalty, and helped found the Pennsylvania Climate Caucus in 2017. He joined the Democratic Socialists of America in 2026.
Pennsylvania's 3rd district is based in west, south and north Philadelphia, west of Broad Street, and the seat is open because Democratic incumbent Dwight Evans announced his retirement in 2025.
Rabb ran as the most left-wing candidate in the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026, and won with 44.6% of the vote, defeating state senator Sharif Street, healthcare official Ala Stanford and tax attorney Shaun Griffith.
Republican candidate Alex Schnell failed to qualify for the ballot, and Rabb's opponent in the general election on November 3, 2026, is independent Dennis Mahoney, a humanitarian aid worker.
