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Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground

(Kalim A. Bhatti/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Could the Pa. GOP bypass the popular vote regardless of who wins? Here’s what we know.

The state Republican Party raised the possibility that the GOP-controlled legislature could choose a slate of presidential electors to cast the state’s votes for Donald Trump.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump does a little dance after speaking at a campaign rally Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Newport News, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Politics & Policy

Trump shifts focus to Pennsylvania to shore up reelection

Trump narrowly flipped three Great Lakes states — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — from blue to red in 2016.

5 years ago

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, pictured in 2018, is seen as a front-runner to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. (Rachel Malehorn, rachelmalehorn.smugmug.com via AP)
Politics & Policy

GOP expecting Trump to tap Barrett for Supreme Court

Trump's campaign is preparing to use the latest confirmation fight for maximum political effect.

5 years ago

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., questions Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018 confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill. That took place in the run-up to her presidential bid. Now, she'll face the spotlight as her party's vice presidential nominee. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

A candidate, not a prosecutor: Harris’ role in upcoming Supreme Court hearings

Kamala Harris made her reputation as a sharp, partisan questioner in Senate hearings. As a VP nominee, that may not be her approach in the next Supreme Court confirmation.

5 years ago

(Thibault Camus/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Civil rights groups say if Facebook won’t act on election misinformation, they will

Facebook critics are banding together to monitor misinformation, hate speech and voter suppression on the social network because, they argue, it has fallen short.

5 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden tours the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry in Manitowoc, Wis., Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Politics & Policy

Biden’s Scranton vs. Park Ave. appeal targets working class

It’s at once a demonstration of Biden’s personal contempt for Trump and the Democratic challenger’s pride in his own family history as mostly working-class Irish Catholics.

5 years ago

Clockwise from top left:  Larry D. Lambert Jr (Photo by Shannon Woodloe), Marie Pinkney (Photo by Imperial Photography), Madinah Wilson-Anton (Photo by Kai Jullian), Eric Morrison (Photo by G Rivera Fumero)
Politics & Policy

‘I was shocked’: Four newcomers beat Democratic incumbents in Delaware primary

There were some major upsets in Del.’s Democratic primary. Four candidates for the General Assembly surprised even themselves when they beat incumbents.

5 years ago

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This May 26 photo shows an official Democratic primary mail-in ballot and secrecy envelope for the Pennsylvania primary in Pittsburgh. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Feds, in unusual statement, announce they’re investigating discarded ballots

Federal authorities working in Pa. say they were asked to look into the discovery of some mailed ballots described as thrown away, but many aspects of the story are unclear.

5 years ago

FILE - This May 26, 2020 file photo shows an Official Democratic General Primary mail-in ballot and secrecy envelope, for the Pennsylvania primary in Pittsburgh. Democrats are launching a digital ad targeting Pennsylvanians voting by mail to explain how to correctly fill out and return the ballots, hoping to avert worried predictions that 100,000 votes or more could be invalidated because the ballots aren't put in the proper envelope.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Politics & Policy

Democrats in Pa. scramble to limit number of ‘naked ballots’

Democrats are launching a digital ad targeting Pennsylvanians voting by mail to explain how to correctly fill out and return the ballots.

5 years ago

Visitors wait in line before a 2020 campaign rally for President Donald Trump on Dec. 10, 2019, at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith for WITF/PA Post)
Politics & Policy

Poll shows fewer than one third of Pennsylvania Republican voters will trust mail-in ballot results

The finding adds to concerns that the president and some Republicans are laying the groundwork to challenge the legitimacy of the election.

5 years ago

In this May 5, 2020, file photo, absentee ballots to be counted are moved at City Hall in Garden City, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Politics & Policy

Records: Mail delivery lags behind targets as election nears

On-time delivery across the country dipped substantially in the weeks after DeJoy took office in mid-June.

5 years ago

President Trump speaks in the White House briefing room
NPR
Politics & Policy

Republican leaders reject Trump hedging on transfer of power amid war over confidence

No votes have been counted in the election of 2020 but a battle already is raging over the integrity of the tally and the process that will follow.

5 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden
Courts & Law

Progressives pledge to keep pushing Biden to expand court

Biden, who ran a relatively centrist primary campaign, hasn't embraced those calls, worried they may intensify the nation's partisan split.

5 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, in Washington.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Politics & Policy

Democrats propose sweeping bill to curb presidential abuses

Each of the bill’s provisions is a response to actions by Trump or his administration that Democrats see as abuses of presidential power.

5 years ago

U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and challenger Lauren Witzke
Politics & Policy

Witzke, Coons tussle over Ginsburg, BLM in Delaware Senate debate

The first debate after the Delaware primary focused on replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, Black Lives Matter and the QAnon conspiracy.

5 years ago

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