BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. — Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick on Wednesday won re-election to a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania.

Fitzpatrick, a four-term congressman and former FBI agent, represents a Bucks County-based district that Democrat Joe Biden won in the 2020 presidential election.

He defeated Democrat Ashley Ehasz, a retired Army helicopter pilot who lost to Fitzpatrick by nearly 10 percentage points in 2022. The Associated Press declared Fitzpatrick the winner at 1:23 a.m. EST.

Fitzpatrick was just one of 16 Republicans running for re-election in a district dominated by Biden in 2020. But Fitzpatrick, who replaced his late brother, has a potent winning formula that has included his family’s name recognition and inroads in the traditional Democratic vote. districts.

He was backed by top unions, ran a digital ad calling himself the “number one most bipartisan congressman” and claimed to support abortion rights, despite Ehasz’s claims to the contrary.