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Joe Biden pulls with 42,000 votes of President Donald Trump
Joe Biden is closing quickly in Pennsylvania. The former vice president and Democratic challenger pulled to within 42,000 votes of President Trump as of 9:35 p.m. Thursday. Trump led 3,277,521 (49.74%) to 3,235,482 (49.11%), but the lead consistently dropped throughout the day as mail ballots continued to be tallied. As of...
Explainer: How much misinformation is kicking around?
They go together all too closely these days: momentous events — and bad information that tells an inaccurate story about how they’re happening. The two days since Election Day, predictably, demonstrate this to be true. Karen Mahabir, fact check and misinformation editor for The Associated Press, says her team of...
We asked voters: What is your hope for the next 4 years?Video
Voters the Trib spoke with this week overwhelmingly said they want to see citizens set aside their political differences and come together. “Honestly, I’m looking for people to just be more kind to each other,” said Krystal Folwer of Bon Air. Watch what voters from across the region had to...
Poll watchers emerge as a flashpoint in battle over ballots
Election officials in key battleground states pushed back on claims by the Trump campaign that Republican poll watchers were being improperly denied access to observe the counting of ballots, saying Thursday that rules were being followed and they were committed to transparency. Tasked this year with monitoring a record number...
Allegheny County officials explain why thousands of ballots can’t yet be counted
More than 35,000 ballots cast in Allegheny County will not be counted until Friday at the earliest, and county officials estimate there could be thousands more provisional ballots in boxes that have yet to be opened. About 29,000 ballots cannot be opened until 5 p.m. Friday as dictated by a...
Missouri election judge worked despite covid-19 diagnosis, then died
O’FALLON, Mo. — A suburban St. Louis election official who worked at a polling place on Election Day despite a positive test for the coronavirus has now died, raising concerns for the nearly 2,000 people who voted there. St. Charles County, Missouri, spokeswoman Mary Enger said in a news release...
Judges in Michigan, Georgia dismiss Trump campaign lawsuits
WASHINGTON — Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits Thursday, undercutting a campaign legal strategy to attack the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean President Donald Trump’s defeat. The rulings came as Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral...
Waiting for Pa.: Biden closing quickly on Trump as counting continues
HARRISBURG — Joe Biden is closing quickly in Pennsylvania. The former vice president and Democratic challenger pulled to within about 22,000 votes of President Donald Trump as of 6 a.m. Friday. Trump leads 3,285,048 (49.6%) to 3,262,575 (49.26%), but the lead precipitously dropped throughout the day Thursday as mail ballots...
Allegheny County ballot count nears end; Westmoreland officials discussing questionable ballots
The finish is in sight. Allegheny County officials said late Wednesday that about 90% of mail ballots had been scanned and counted, with about 35,413 such ballots still needing to be tabulated out of the 348,485 returned in all. Elections staff reported having scanned 313,072 mail ballots. That brings the...
With another Florida loss, Democrats begin second guessing
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Perhaps only in Florida is a loss by fewer than 4 percentage points considered a public drubbing. In a state famous for razor-thin margins, the size of former Vice President Joe Biden’s loss to President Donald Trump was humiliating for Democrats and sent many searching for answers...
Biden pushes closer to victory in race for the White House
Democrat Joe Biden was pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the “blue wall” battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing President Donald Trump’s path. With just a handful of states still up for grabs, Trump tried to press his...
Biden has the presidency in his reach, with Pa. in the balance and Trump railing against counting votes
SCRANTON, Pa. — Joe Biden appeared to be on the cusp of winning the presidency Wednesday, even as Pennsylvania’s election results remained uncertain and President Donald Trump made increasingly desperate attempts to stop the vote count. Biden won the critical swing states of Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, according to The...
Trump backers converge on vote centers in Michigan, Arizona
Dozens of angry supporters of President Donald Trump converged on vote-counting centers in Detroit and Phoenix as the returns went against him Wednesday in the two key states, while thousands of anti-Trump protesters demanding a complete tally of the ballots in the still-undecided election took to the streets in cities...
With narrow lead U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb declares victory over Republican challenger Sean ParnellVideo
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb declared victory Wednesday night as incomplete results showed the Democratic incumbent take a whisker-close lead over Republican challenger Sean Parnell, with barely 700 votes separating the candidates in the hotly watched race for the 17th Congressional District. By noon Thursday, Lamb’s lead had grown to about...
The monthslong political saga that guaranteed a long vote count in Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — It didn’t have to be this way in Pennsylvania. Yes, the state’s universal mail voting law is only a...
Shapiro takes lead in attorney general race, but row office contests still up for grabs
Democratic incumbent Josh Shapiro took the lead over Republican challenger Heather Heidelbaugh in the race for Pennsylvania attorney general Thursday morning, reversing the lead held by Heidelbaugh the day before. Republican candidates continue to lead in the races for auditor general and state treasurer. But with mail-in votes, which tend...
Tay Waltenbaugh concedes state Senate race to incumbent Kim Ward
First-time candidate Tay Waltenbaugh on Wednesday night conceded the race for the 39th District State Senate seat to incumbent Kim Ward, who had built a sizable lead as vote counting neared an end. “For nearly a year and a half, we have worked diligently to achieve victory on Nov. 3,”...
Democrats win big in Arizona, now a former GOP stronghold
PHOENIX — Democrats have been asking the question for a long time: Is this the year Arizona turns blue? In 2020, the answer was “yes.” Joe Biden won Arizona’s 11 electoral votes for president and Mark Kelly won a seat in the U.S. Senate, ushering in an era of Democratic...
San Francisco voters approve taxes on CEOs, big businesses
SAN FRANCISCO — Addressing economic disparity laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved several tax measures targeting landlords and big businesses whose CEOs earn far higher than their average workers. Under the new law, any company that pays its top executive 100 times more than their...
Oakmont’s Carrie DelRosso holds small lead over House Minority Leader Frank Dermody
A first-term Republican councilwoman from Oakmont held a small lead Friday over House Minority Leader Frank Dermody with thousands of votes yet to be counted in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. The state’s unofficial election results on Thursday showed Carrie DelRosso’s early lead tighten to a margin of just 4 percentage...
Joyce holds big lead for second term in Congress
U.S. Rep. John Joyce, R-Blair County, appears poised to win a second term in office. On Wednesday afternoon, Joyce held a commanding lead over Democrat Todd Rowley of Donegal Township in Westmoreland County. According to unofficial results with more than 92% of state precincts reporting, Joyce received nearly 78% of...
Pennsylvania could be key in Republican legal election challenges
It is likely that Pennsylvania will remain the epicenter of Republican legal challenges to continuing election results in coming days, but whether those challenges will even matter was in doubt Wednesday evening. The state Republican Party on Tuesday filed two lawsuits in Pennsylvania challenging whether counties could follow Secretary of...
In blue and red states, milestone wins for LGBTQ candidates
NEW YORK — Across the nation, LGBTQ candidates achieved milestone victories in Tuesday’s election, including the first transgender person elected to a state Senate, and the first openly gay Black men to win seats in Congress. The landmark wins came not in only blue but also red states such as...
After federal judge’s order, Postal Service sweep finds 13 ballotsVideo
U.S. Postal Service inspectors found just 13 ballots — all in Pennsylvania — during an Election Day sweep of mail processing centers ordered by a federal judge. The ballots were found in two separate mail processing facilities and were expedited for delivery to local election offices, according to court records...
Pennsylvania’s presidential vote could be moot before it is even finished
After more than five dozen campaign visits to Pennsylvania by President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden and an estimated $100 million in campaign and PAC spending, the final count in the Keystone State’s election could be insignificant in determining Tuesday’s national outcome. The state — with 20 Electoral College...
