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Very encouraging when Dem leaders are admitting that their own Dem voters are "shy" Trump voters. PA DEM ward leaders told Brett Bair (Fox) last month and Philly reporters (yesterday) that "shy" Trumpers are real among their DEM voters . Welcome to the two neighborhoods in deep-blue Philly where Trump can win again Democratic leaders in a couple pockets of Philadelphia that backed Trump in 2016 think the president could win there again. inquirer.com

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An appellate court judge in Pennsylvania has turned down an emergency petition from Republicans seeking to block the Philadelphia suburb of Delaware County from operating a three-day early voting center in the city of Chester. Commonwealth Court Judge Kevin Brobson, in a decision Friday night, wrote that a county judge had reasonable grounds to reject the emergency petition. Pennsylvania is a key battleground state in the contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. The voting center began operating Friday in the predominantly Black and Democratic city of Chester. The county's solicitor, William...

HARRISBURG — Negotiations between the Republican-led legislature and Gov. Tom Wolf to let counties begin opening mail ballots in Pennsylvania before Election Day appeared to collapse Wednesday, setting up a potential nightmare scenario that some fear could leaving the state counting millions of ballots for days after Nov. 3. The Democratic governor and legislative leaders had been negotiating behind closed doors as recently as Tuesday to change the election code after months of inaction. But the General Assembly adjourned Wednesday and is not scheduled to reconvene until Nov. 10, a week after the election. In adjourning, Republicans turned away pleas...

Pennsylvania restaurant owners who were fined roughly $10,000 for opening their doors in defiance of coronavirus restrictions have been deemed not guilty. A judge in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, found Taste of Sicily not guilty in its fight against the Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s coronavirus restrictions, according to Local 21 News Harrisburg. “The crux of the legal argument is that orders that have been issued by the Governor and The Department of Health are legally unenforceable. Judge Garvey agreed with that argument,” the restaurant’s lawyer Eric Winter said. The restaurant, co-owned by siblings Michael Mangano and Christine Wartluft, opened in May...

Pennsylvania restaurant owners have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and were hoping to see restrictions relaxed on their businesses. An effort in the General Assembly failed again Tuesday, albeit just barely. The state House of Representatives fell short in a bid to override Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto of a bill that would have eased rules on restaurants. The effort needed two-thirds of the House and fell short by two votes. John Longstreet, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Association, said the defeat of the bill (HB 2513) was a blow for the industry. “The failure...

Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. announced that President Donald J. Trump will deliver remarks at Make America Great Again Rallies in Erie, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT and in Gastonia, North Carolina on Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT. Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT President Donald J. Trump Delivers Remarks at a Make America Great Again Rally in Erie, Pennsylvania Erie International Airport

Nearly 90% of rejected applications were duplicate requests. Pennsylvania has rejected hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballot applications this election year, with the vast majority of those rejections occurring because of duplicate ballot requests from voters in the state. The state "has rejected 372,000 requests for mail-in ballots," with "more than 90% of those applications, or about 336,000," occurring due to duplicate requests, ProPublica reported this week. According to ProPublica, the significant number of duplicate applications came about largely due to voters having requested a general election ballot during the state's primary election as well as closer to the general...

Former President Barack Obama is expected to hit the physical campaign trail for Joe Biden (D) next week, according to the campaign. Obama is expected to help Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) in their final push as Election Day swiftly approaches, delivering a speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, October 21. His scheduled appearance in the battleground state follows recent polls showing President Trump and Biden neck and neck in the Keystone State.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has vetoed a key bill that would loosen restrictions on restaurants and bars in the state. House Bill 2513 would set minimum capacity for restaurants and taverns at a minimum of 50% and even beyond that if the premises allow. It further would allow establishments to permit patrons to sit at bars, provided they socially distance, and would eliminate the requirement that a meal must be purchased to buy an alcoholic beverage. “This bill jeopardizes public health and safety as it permits eating establishments, including restaurants, bars, clubs and banquet halls, to operate up to 100%...

Health Department Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine cautioned on Wednesday Pennsylvania is facing a fall resurgence of coronavirus. “It’s very hard to predict what the future will bring, but we have been talking for months that we were concerned that as we entered the fall season, as the weather started to change, that we would see a resurgence in terms of the numbers of COVID-19,” she said during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency offices. Over the past nine days, Pennsylvania has reported more than 1,000 daily new cases after its latest update said that there were 1,276...

Joe Biden (D) and President Donald Trump are statistically tied in Pennsylvania, a Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday revealed. While the former vice president leads Trump 47.4 percent to 45.1 percent, Biden’s 2.3 percent lead is well within the survey’s +/- 2.97 percent margin of error, indicating a statistical tie in the state.

Tuesday, October 13, 2020: Join the RSBN crew for live coverage as President Donald J. Trump holds a Make America Great Again event at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in Johnstown, PA Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. announced that President Donald J. Trump will deliver remarks at Make America Great Again Rallies in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT and in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 at 6:00 PM CDT.

This story took place over the past week or so but it’s just bubbling to the surface outside of the local news beat. In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mayor Danene Sorace (D) held an extremely short press conference on October 2nd to announce the retirement of their Chief of Police, Jarrad Berkihiser. After briefly thanking him for his service, the Mayor took no questions from the press and departed. The Police Chief did not attend the event and issued no comment. Lancaster’s police chief was forced to retire because his wife posted positive comments about President Trump on Facebook, according to the...

A career of the police chief in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been cut short after his wife supported President Trump in a comment to a Facebook post. 49-year-old Jarrad Berkihiser, faced an ultimatum from the mayor, Democrat Danene Sorace, to either retire or be fired, and eventually chose the former. The account of this controversy comes from until recently the head of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) for Lancaster, John Fiorill, who said Berkihiser had turned to the organization for advice once he was asked to step down on account of his wife’s opinion expressed online. On September 27, Kristy...

FLEETWOOD, Pa. - About a month and half ago, in Lancashire, England, in the coastal town of Fleetwood, a teenager having suicidal thoughts sent a message to the Fleetwood Police Department's Facebook page. His distraught state of mind prevented him from realizing the message went a continent away, to Fleetwood, Berks County, and to the attention of police Chief Steven Stinsky. Stinsky engaged with the teen on Facebook Messenger. "I started looking through social media," Stinsky recalled. "I ended up finding the subject's Facebook page, and based on the vernacular he used in conversations, it wasn't long before I realized...

Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf said Thursday that he is concerned about the recent rise of confirmed coronavirus case counts in the state and also an increased number of hospitalizations related to infectious disease, and yet there might be a few logical explanations for it. The state’s Health Department reported 1,376 new cases as of 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, which is the highest one-day total since April. That news came on the heels of 1,309 on Wednesday and 1,036 on Tuesday, equaling the first multi-day run with more than 1,000 new cases in some time. It must be noted,...

...In that year’s presidential election, Bucks’s swing voters helped deliver the state to then-vice president George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, the Democratic governor of Massachusetts. Bush became the last Republican to win the county. And yet, in 2016, Hillary Clinton carried Bucks by fewer than 2,700 votes...This narrow margin was a forgotten factor in Trump’s statewide victory by about 44,000 votes. “Bucks was a disaster,” one Democratic media strategist told the Inquirer. In a county where Democrats have outnumbered Republicans since 2008, Clinton’s underperformance indicated that Bucks remained an unpredictable battleground. This year, suburban Philadelphia is undoubtedly Joe...

As Northampton County goes, so goes Pennsylvania -- and, most times, the nation. For the last century, Northampton County voters have backed the presidential candidate who ended up winning the prize of Pennsylvania’s hefty electoral college votes. All but three times since 1920, the candidate Northampton County voters selected assumed the presidency. This has earned the county a national reputation as a political bellwether and a region where voters are often willing to split their ticket, preferring one party in the White House and another running Congress. It cemented that standing in 2016 when it became one of 206 counties...

PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is allowing larger crowds at indoor and outdoor events under guidance that's linked to the maximum capacity of venues. The Democratic governor's new rules, announced Tuesday, will take effect on Friday. They employ a sliding scale that will permit much larger crowds at many events, including school sporting events during the fall season.

In the third quarter of 2020, the Pennsylvania Instant Check System completed 406,151 background checks, which is nearly double the volume completed during the same period last year. The highest previous total was set in the first quarter of 2013, when 369,807 background checks were conducted, according to the Pennsylvania State Police.