Politics

The U.S. presidential race is hovering in suspended animation as the long, exacting work of counting votes brings Democrat Joe Biden closer to victory over President Trump.

“We have to stop the police from being the first responders,” said Gwen Carr, Garner’s mother. “They shoot first and ask questions later.”

The Associated Press called the close race for Republican Van Drew on Friday. He was the incumbent, though he first won the seat in 2018 as a Democrat.

The Associated Press and NPR have not yet called the race and President Donald Trump has not conceded, but trends suggest Biden has a path to victory.

Stocks have traditionally done well with a Democrat in the White House and Congress under Republican control.

N.J. Congressman Jeff Van Drew flipped from Democrat to Republican. Now he's in a tight race for reelection against Democrat Amy Kennedy in a longtime swing district.

The protests came as the president repeatedly insisted without evidence that there were major problems with the voting and the ballot counting.

Two days after Election Day, neither candidate had amassed the votes needed to win the White House. But Biden’s victories in the Great Lakes states left him at 264.

There have been no reports of fraud or any type of ballot concerns out of Pennsylvania. The state received more than 3.1 million mail-in ballots that take time to count.

The Pennsylvania Election Protection Coalition recapped what many anticipated would be a confusing Election Day, and called it a relative success.

Biden's campaign manager says the Democratic nominee will win by a bigger margin than Trump did in 2016 in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

It was a jarring outcome for Democrats who had devised an expanded political map, eager to provide a backstop against President Trump and his party’s grip on the Senate.

In a year defined by pandemic, movements against racial injustice and the general defiance of norms, Philadelphia showed out on Election Day.

“West and Southwest Philly have been ground zero for the disaster of this presidency,” said City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier at an election night rally on Independence Mall.

Booker defeated Republican Rik Mehta, a business executive with a law degree and a doctorate in pharmacy.