Pennsylvania Politics

President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign are signaling they will pursue an aggressive legal strategy to try to prevent Pennsylvania from counting mailed ballots that are received in the three days after the election.

Biden was in Philadelphia on Sunday, the largest city in what is emerging as the most hotly contested battleground in the closing 48 hours of the campaign. He participated in a “souls to the polls” event that is part of a nationwide effort to organize Black churchgoers to vote.

The eyes of the nation may be on Pennsylvania this Election Day, but they may have to remain there for the rest of the week as the key swing state finishes tallying its votes.

In the Bucks County-based 1st District in suburban Philadelphia, second-term U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is being challenged by Democrat Christina Finello, who maintains that Fitzpatrick has not stood up to President Donald Trump.

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, whose office oversees voting in Pennsylvania, described the discarded ballots as a “bad error” but not a matter of intentional fraud.

At the state's deadline to apply for mail-in or absentee ballots, Pennsylvania officials are encouraging those who have already filled theirs out to return them immediately.

President Donald Trump will be making another stop in Pennsylvania Monday as he hosts a Make America Great Again Victory Rally in Allentown.

In a persistent gambit to win the battleground state of Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump has worked to peel off voters connected to its booming natural gas industry and accuse former Vice President Joe Biden of plotting to shut it down.

The high court’s action left unresolved the legal issues Republicans raised, and the new request asks the court to take up the Republican Party’s case on an expedited basis. 

If Democrats do regain the majority, a big reason may be unusually high spending on House races this year, thanks in part to more than $2 million from second-term Gov. Tom Wolf for House and Senate races.

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is prohibiting counties from rejecting ballots because the voter’s signature on it may not resemble their signature on their registration form.

A Pennsylvania appeals court is delivering another defeat to efforts by President Donald Trump’s campaign to let its campaign representatives monitor people registering to vote or filling out mail-in ballots in election offices in Pennsylvania.

With less than two weeks until Election Day, Barack Obama delivered a sweeping condemnation of Trump while urging voters not to sit out the Nov. 3 election. He cast Trump as uninterested in leading America through the unprecedented challenges the country is facing.

Democratic voters in at least four battleground states including Florida and Pennsylvania received threatening emails, falsely purporting to be from the neo-fascist group Proud Boys, that warned “we will come after you” if the recipients didn't vote for President Donald Trump.

The override would have allowed taverns and restaurants to open at half capacity, or more if they met state and federal social distancing standards or erected appropriate barriers.

We are officially two weeks until Election Day and there are questions in our area surrounding mail-in ballots. 

A shorthanded Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4, letting the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling stand.