| New reporting reveals that career politician Ryan Mackenzie has quietly scrubbed his campaign website in a failed attempt to paper over his lies and broken promises to Lehigh Valley voters.
The report shows that Mackenzie “quietly overhauled his campaign website to scrub MAGA talking points” just months before election day. Notably, Mackenzie deleted a section where he previously promised to oppose “forever wars.” Now, Mackenzie’s “updated webpage has wiped out mentions of the word ‘war’” entirely.
It’s all part of a pattern for Mackenzie, who has repeatedly been caught telling lies to Lehigh Valley voters about who he is and his true positions.
See the archived version of Mackenzie’s scrubbed website HERE, his new version HERE, and details from the Daily Beast’s reporting below:
- A Republican congressman in a vulnerable seat quietly overhauled his campaign website to scrub MAGA talking points, including a reference to “forever wars.”
- Pennsylvania Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, 43, has been endorsed by President Donald Trump in his bid to keep his seat in the swing state’s 7th district, which he won by a razor-thin margin in 2024. But as the president’s agenda runs into roadblocks and becomes unpopular with voters ahead of the midterms, Mackenzie has reworked his campaign website.
- Archived versions of Mackenzie’s site reviewed by the Daily Beast show that his list of “12 priorities to get America back on track” had been untouched since 2024, when he first ran for Congress after more than a decade as a state legislator.
- In May, however, Mackenzie’s list of promises was overhauled as Trump’s war with Iran dragged on into its third month and polls showed resounding disapproval of the administration’s hardline immigration agenda.
- The updated webpage has wiped out mentions of the word “war,” instead vowing more broadly to “support veterans and servicemembers” by passing bipartisan legislation “to improve early intervention for those in distress and streamline Veterans Affairs customer service.”
- Mackenzie has been opposed to regime change and bombing in Iran since his 2024 campaign, calling them the “wrong solution” that would lead to “forever wars.” In March, after Trump launched attacks in the Middle East, Mackenzie told NOTUS that he had heard concerns from constituents about “getting embroiled in another forever war.”
- But his voting record doesn’t line up with his statements on the war. Mackenzie has voted four times to uphold the conflict, even as it sent gas prices soaring amid an affordability crisis.
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