U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick will not attend the Republican National Committee's midterm convention in Dallas, his congressional office confirmed to WHYY News.

Three other Pennsylvania Republicans in competitive races are going. U.S. Reps. Ryan Mackenzie and Rob Bresnahan are scheduled to speak at the two-day gathering, and U.S. Rep. Scott Perry plans to attend. WHYY reported that Fitzpatrick appears to be the only vulnerable Pennsylvania GOP House member sitting it out.

RNC Chair Joe Gruters has dubbed the event "Trumpapalooza." It is the Republican Party's first national convention organized around a midterm election. President Donald Trump conceived the gathering and plans to speak both nights.

WHYY reported that Fitzpatrick has voted in line with Trump about half the time since Trump took office. He voted against Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" over concerns about Medicaid cuts affecting his constituents, according to Broad + Liberty. Trump has endorsed nine of the 10 Pennsylvania Republican members of Congress for re-election. Fitzpatrick is the one left out, PoliticsPA reported.

"Most districts, particularly mine, they don't want you to be the permanent lapdog nor the permanent critic of any administration," Fitzpatrick told MS NOW in a September interview. "They want you to call balls and strikes based on what's good for the people back home."

Vice President JD Vance gave members in tight races some room. "We don't need a congressman in a tight race to be there in all cases," Vance said, according to MS NOW.

Fitzpatrick's PA-01 district covers all of Bucks County and part of Montgomery County. It is one of only three House districts held by a Republican that Vice President Kamala Harris carried in 2024. Inside Elections recently moved the race from "likely Republican" to "lean Republican."

He faces Democratic challenger Bob Harvie, a Bucks County commissioner, in the Nov. 3 general election. Libertarian Jamie Frost Remmey and independent John Hoban are also on the ballot. As of July, Fitzpatrick's campaign held $6.35 million in cash on hand compared with Harvie's roughly $795,000, according to campaign finance reports cited by the New Hope Free Press.

Lehigh University political scientist Christopher Borick told Broad + Liberty in August that Fitzpatrick's breaks with Trump "have given him some cover that many other Republicans don't have." Four Democratic members of Congress, including U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean of Montgomery County, plan to be in Dallas for a counter-event.