Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground

Columnist Solomon Jones shares his thoughts on what it will take for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to win the 2020 election.

Election boards want to start processing mail-in ballots before Election Day, but such a move would require cooperation between the Democratic governor and Republican leaders.

Democrats know they’ll win Philly in November. But their margins could determine who wins Pa., and the Biden campaign is trying to shore them up.

For the first time since winning the nomination, Biden was to face live, unscripted questions from voters, with the coronavirus pandemic responsible for the unusual format.

The judge noted after a hearing that Trump had repeatedly attacked voting by mail by making unfounded claims that it is rife with fraud.

Philly voters could receive their mail-in ballots within 8 to 10 days.

As a councilman, Trippi Congo was part of what Mayor Purzycki calls the “resistance.” Tuesday Congo ousted a Purzycki ally to win the council presidency.

It also authorized the use of satellite election offices and drop boxes — which the state plans to use to help relieve the pressure from an avalanche of mailed-in ballots.

The video appears to show Biden playing a controversial song by the rap group N.W.A. during a campaign trip to Florida.

More than half of Delaware Democrats voted by mail. For Republicans, less than 25% of ballots were mailed in.

Mike Purzycki won a second term Tuesday night, fending off a pair of challengers. U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and New Castle County Exec. Matt Meyer also were winners.

As Trump talked to undecided voters in Philly, competing protests flared up outside, with Trump detractors outnumbering supporters.

Wolf called on both President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled state legislature to start “getting serious” about the coronavirus pandemic.

Pa. Democrats and Black clergy members in Philly decried a Trump campaign-backed attempt by Republicans to ban ballot drop boxes.

First-term incumbent Mayor Mike Purzycki is trying to fend off challenges from treasurer Velda Jones-Potter and former City Councilman Justen Wright.