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Republican Dave McCormick is the next U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, beating out incumbant Democrat Bob Casey nearly a week ago. The votes are counted, the race has been called. And yet, Casey is refusing to concede -- prompting calls from fellow Democrats for him to do the right thing. Meanwhile Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who will lose his post to a Republican majority in January, is refusing to allow McCormick to participate in orientation.

Only two days after Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States again, he’s already stacking wins. Steve Madden is curbing manufacturing in China; Hamas must not contend with its people urging for a peaceful exit out of this losing war with Israel now that Trump has won, and Russia is suddenly ready for peace talks over Ukraine. The Houthis announcing a ceasefire was not accurate. Still, Hezbollah, another Iran-backed group, said they're open to ceasefire talks because Israel has been lethal in killing most of their top leaders. Donald Trump has been the President-Elect for not even...

Breathe deeply and savor the musky scent of broken leftist dreams. Mmmmmmm. Smells like freedom! Now, we must get busy pummeling our enemies. Some silly people will say that you shouldn’t kick an opponent when he’s down. That’s actually the best time to kick him. This is no time to go wobbly. We beat the left decisively and completely. Their humiliation is complete. They thought they had us at their feet and at their mercy. They thought they could throw our avatar in jail and thereby disenfranchise and silence us. They thought they were going to be in power forever...

All the big names hit the “Joe Rogan Experience” before Election Day, and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was no exception. However, he had grim news for the Democratic Party. Fetterman told Rogan that Trump’s message continues to resonate with Pennsylvania voters in a way that differs from other Republican candidates. He expressed concern that Vice President Kamala Harris won’t have enough support to win despite spending significant portions of campaign funds and rallying in the state. Pennsylvania is critical to each candidate as it’s one of the crucial battleground states that could determine the election outcome because it has...

There is reportedly a five-alarm fire in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This area will decide the 2024 election. Donald Trump must win here. He split with Hillary Clinton in 2016 and won the state. While historically an evenly split county, the voter registration advantage has tilted toward the Republicans. Shockingly, that coincides with some administrative issues at election sites that some allege are intentional. The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee were incensed that voters were reportedly turned away during the early voting process. They sued, and a Pennsylvania judge sided with them, extending the deadline until yesterday. Even then,...

The Amish traditionally don’t vote in presidential elections due to their faith-based beliefs and Christianity’s historic separatism from mainstream society. Still, this year brings a whole new ball game as the candidates seek support from the horse and buggy riding group. Since the Amish are a reliably conservative group given their faith-based convictions, reluctance to engage with people outside of their culture and lack of eagerness to conform to modern-day technology, the group can drastically shift the outcome of some rural states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin. A report from Elizabethtown College recorded that about 90,000 Amish live...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Officials in York County say it's their understanding that a group based out of Arizona is responsible for the bulk delivery of voter registration applications, including some that were denied and are being reviewed by the District Attorney's Office. County officials said Friday it's their understanding Field+Media Corps is responsible for delivering more than 3,000 voter registration applications to the county. According to a Google listing for the company, it is a "full service consulting that can plan and manage our campaign." When CBS 21 tried to go to the company's website we got an...

Another statue of former President Donald Trump appeared in Philadelphia Thursday — the second in as many days — except larger and more obscene. The detailed 40-foot naked Trump effigy hung by crane on Kensington Avenue to the curiosity, disgust and delight of passersby. The statue looks like one that went up in Madison, which was part of a “Crooked and Obscene Tour,” the Capital Times reported. In the past month, the statue has made appearances in Las Vegas, Detroit and Phoenix. According to the Detroit Free Press, the statue is made of foam and rebar and weighs about 6,000...

The York County Board of Elections provided an update Wednesday night on the review of a large batch of voter registration applications that was delivered last week. Here's a summary of their findings so far: The York County Board of Elections reported that out of 3,000 flagged voter registration applications, 47% were verified and approved. About 29% of the applications were incomplete and will not be approved until additional information is provided by the applicants. The remaining 24% were declined, with 85% of those being duplicate registration requests, and are now under review by the district attorney. Eligible voters with...

HARRISBURG — They may be called mail ballots, but there’s more than one way to return them in Pennsylvania.In many counties across the commonwealth, voters have the opportunity to deposit their completed mail ballots into secure drop boxes. These enable Pennsylvanians to make sure ballots reach county election offices before the 8 p.m. Election Day deadline without risking mail delays.Still, some public figures, including former President Donald Trump, have sought to ban drop boxes, claiming they aren’t allowed under state law and that they are susceptible to fraud. In fact, both state and federal courts have upheld their use. And...

Two polls of Pennsylvania voters released Wednesday show the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump effectively tied, with the largest sample survey showing a growing political gender divide even as voters rank Trump as less personally appealing. The polls released Wednesday are a 500-person survey of likely voters from Susquehanna Polling & Research, with a 4.38 percentage point margin of error, and a 2,186-voter poll from Quinnipiac University with a 2.1-point margin. The Susquehanna poll shows Harris — the current vice president and Democratic presidential candidate — up by a fraction of a percentage point over former president Trump....

On Monday, just eight days away from Election Day, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt received a letter from an attorney for the Republican National Committee. It contained a number of reminders about how voters should be treated in the state as they attempt to cast their ballots. "Voters consistently report to us that at Boards of Election Offices across the Commonwealth, they are told that 'computers are down,' the site will be closing early, they are not accepting any more voters, and that mail ballots will not be counted. Pennsylvanians deserve the same effortless experience boasted about by...

Maybe you're old enough to remember that tennis match from the early 1970s billed as "The Battle of the Sexes." I didn't watch it but they told me that it involved a young Billie Jean King and an aging male pro named Bobby Riggs. Nobody took that show seriously, but I guess they made a few dollars of the whole thing. Hope they made enough money to buy a ‘73 Sabre. It was a beauty! The Battle of the Sexes has now gone political. In fact, the divide is pretty big. If only men voted then Trump would sweep. If...

As the temperature dropped into the 50s in central Pennsylvania Saturday, things were heating up in the final push to the November 5 election. Thus was the case in State College as former President Donald Trump made the first of two possible stops at Penn State. His presence invited challenge from two grassroots organizations and a smattering of others on campus. Around 50 protesters with signs featuring progressive rhetoric marched up University Drive and wrapped around the Bryce Jordan Center onto Curtin Road, loudly decrying racism, fascism and the excesses of capitalism. “Dare to struggle, dare to win… Make racists...

Pennsylvanians must be given a chance to vote on Election Day if their mail ballots have been rejected because of a disqualifying mistake, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. That means voters who fail to correctly sign or date the return envelope or fail to use a secrecy envelope are entitled to cast a provisional ballot on Election Day at a polling place and have it counted, as long as that ballot wouldn’t be rejected for some other disqualifying issue. In a 4-3 decision, the court said that provisional voting was meant to assure access to the right to vote,...

On Tuesday night, while campaigning for former and potentially future President Donald Trump in North Carolina, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced that she was joining the Republican Party. She had served as a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District from 2013-2021 and even ran for president in 2020. She left the Democratic Party to become an Independent in October 2022, however, and has now since become a Republican. While such an announcement came on Tuesday, as Gabbard joined Trump at the podium in Greensboro, she had endorsed him in August. This is also around the time when Robert F....

We're just two weeks away from the election, but Vice President Kamala Harris will not be on the campaign trail today. Such a move earned strong words from former and potentially future President Donald Trump. "I was going to hit her really hard on the trail today," Trump said about Harris, "but now I don't have to 'cause she's off, she's off." To laughter from the crowd, Trump continued that he "couldn't get over it." "Who the hell takes off when you have 14 days left?! And she'll take a couple of more days off, too," Trump predicted. "You know?...

Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney is in Michigan today campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris. It's a last ditch effort to get Harris over the finish line on Election Day -- in a crucial, blue wall swing state where she's losing voters. Former President Donald Trump is weighing in on the duo with a harsh reminder about who Liz is related to. "Arab Voters are very upset that Comrade Kamala Harris, the Worst Vice President in the History of the United States and a Low IQ individual, is campaigning with 'dumb as a rock' War Hawk, Liz Cheney, who, like...

President Joe Biden is urging the West to fork over more assistance for Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia, fearing that a Trump victory would dry up the cash cow for the country. During a meeting with European allies in Berlin, Biden claimed that Ukraine needs to keep up its support for Kyiv to “sustain our resolve.” Concerned that former President Donald Trump will take back the White House, Biden suggested that Ukraine needs all the assistance it can get before the U.S. stops cutting checks that do nothing more than fuel the war. “As Ukraine faces a tough...

On Wednesday night, as Townhall has been covering, Vice President Kamala Harris had her interview with Fox News' Bret Baier. It ended up being a disaster for her and her campaign, with Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the Republican nominee for vice president, certainly having some thoughts about how Harris performed. Harris bombed so badly that immediately after, Vance quipped over X that Democrats "should consider swapping Kamala Harris for Joe Biden." To my Democratic friends: maybe you should consider swapping Kamala Harris for Joe Biden. — JD Vance (@JDVance) October 16, 2024 Vance also spoke to "Fox & Friends," where...