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Tarentum mom delivers baby — and votes from hospital
Megan Walker gave birth to a son on Monday. On Tuesday, Walker told her medical team at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Oakland that she needed to be released in time to vote. She didn’t have to worry about making it to her polling place in Tarentum. The ballot was delivered...
Election Wednesday: 313,000 mail ballots scanned thus far, Allegheny County officials say
The waiting continues. Pennsylvania is in the spotlight, as predicted, but officials are making progress on counting all of the ballots. The Tribune-Review will continue to provide extensive election coverage today. Counting ends for the night, continues Thursday Allegheny County officials reported at 10:55 p.m. that vote counting has ended...
Southwestern Pa. counties resume counting votes
Allegheny County has resumed its efforts to count mail-in ballots after a pause early Wednesday morning, according to county spokeswoman Amie Downs. Voters sent in 348,485 mail-in and absentee ballots. As of 3 a.m., 173,068 had been processed and electronically scanned. Another approximately 29,000 ballots had been set aside for...
Presidency hinges on tight races in battleground states
WASHINGTON — The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House. It was unclear...
Watch: Western Pa. voters discuss their hopes for the futureVideo
As Western Pennsylvania voters went to the polls Tuesday, Tribune-Review reporters caught up with them to chat about the country and the region along with their hopes and expectations. Below is a video capturing voter reactions....
Democrat Mark Kelly flips Republican Senate seat in Arizona
PHOENIX — Democrat Mark Kelly won the Arizona Senate seat once held by John McCain, riding Arizona’s changing electorate to flip a Republican Senate seat in a state long dominated by the GOP. Arizona will send two Democrats to the Senate for the first time in nearly 70 years when...
There’s no winner in the presidential race. That’s OK
WASHINGTON — America woke up Wednesday morning without a winner of the presidential election. That’s OK. Critical battleground states including Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania remained without declared winners, leaving both President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden short of the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House....
Democrats head toward House control, but lose incumbents to GOPVideo
WASHINGTON — Democrats drove Wednesday toward extending their control of the House for two more years but with a potentially shrunken majority as they lost at least six incumbents and failed to oust any Republican lawmakers in initial returns. By 3 a.m., Democrats’ only gains were two North Carolina seats...
Trump’s false victory claim risks touching off turmoilVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s claim of victory from the White House early Wednesday carries no official weight yet risks touching off turmoil and a protracted legal fight over the election outcome. Democrat Joe Biden hasn’t conceded. The Associated Press, the unofficial but respected interpreter of election results, hasn’t called...
These Pa. counties won’t start counting mail ballots until Wednesday
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. This article is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. Officials in Pennsylvania...
Gov. Tom Wolf urges patience as vote count continues
Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said Tuesday night that there were only isolated problems at the polls and no significant issues reported during Tuesday election. They also reiterated people to be patient as the votes are tallied. “I encourage all of us to take a deep...
Davanzo defeats Prah in rematch for 58th District state House seat
Republican incumbent state Rep. Eric Davanzo has defeated Democrat Robert Prah Jr. in the race for a full two-year term representing the 58th state House District in central and southern Westmoreland County, according to unofficial results from Westmoreland County. With all votes counted, Davanzo received slightly more than 63 percent...
Reschenthaler maintains commanding lead to retain seat in 14th Congressional District
Republican incumbent Rep. Guy Reschenthaler of Peters defeated Democratic challenger Bill Marx in his bid to hold on for a second term representing the newly formed 14th Congressional District, which includes a large portion of western Westmoreland County, along with portions of Greene, Washington and Fayette. Though some mail-in ballots...
Republican challenger leads longtime incumbent state Rep. Joe Petrarca
Republican challenger Jason Silvis maintained a 6-point lead over 13-term incumbent state Rep. Joe Petrarca on Thursday morning in Pennsylvania’s 55th state House District, according to unofficial and incomplete returns. Silvis, a film stuntman, has collected 53.1% of the votes counted compared with Petrarca’s 46.9%, a margin of about 1,800...
Ziccarelli holds slight lead in attempt to unseat Pa. Sen. Jim Brewster in race for 45th District
Republican challenger Nicole Ziccarelli maintained a slim lead over incumbent state Sen. Jim Brewster in a race for Pennsylvania’s 45th State Senate District, according to incomplete and unofficial election results. Ziccarelli had received 50.67% of the 124,396 votes counted, leading Brewster by 1,658 votes. Early election returns Tuesday night showed...
Covid-infected family votes at Westmoreland County Courthouse under special protocols
Westmoreland County elections officials took special precautions Tuesday as a family infected with the coronavirus appeared at the courthouse to cast ballots in the 2020 election. Two parents and their adult son called ahead to make arrangements to vote, said Commissioner Doug Chew. “I was the designated covid commissioner and...
Kim Ward leads Tay Waltenbaugh as first votes are counted
Incumbent Kim Ward was holding on tight to her 39th District State Senate seat Wednesday afternoon, leading opponent Tay Waltenbaugh by more than 50,600 votes. Ward, a 64-year-old Hempfield Republican who has served in the Senate for 12 years, had about 70% of the votes with 144 out of 206...
State row office elections may hang on mail-in ballot count
Early returns suggested two incumbent Democratic state row officers — Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and state Treasurer Joe Torsella — could be in trouble in their reelection bids. With about 32% of the vote tallied Tuesday evening, Shapiro was lagging Allegheny County Republican challenger Heather Heidelbaugh by 45% to...
Republican challenger Sean Parnell’s lead over U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb narrows
Republican challenger Sean Parnell led U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb late Wednesday afternoon in the high-profile 17th Congressional District race, but Lamb narrowed the lead throughout the day, according to unofficial and incomplete returns. As of 4 p.m., Parnell had collected 53.2% of the votes counted compared to Lamb’s 46.8%, a...
GOP’s Tommy Tuberville defeats U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, flips Alabama seat
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville has recaptured a U.S. Senate seat for Republicans by defeating Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama. Jones had widely been considered the Senate’s most endangered Democrat. Republicans had made recapturing the once reliably conservative seat a priority in 2020. Tuberville, who has...
Incumbent state Sen. Joe Pittman overwhelms Democratic challenger Tony DeLoreto
State Sen. Joe Pittman, R-Indiana, collected three times as many votes as his Democratic challenger in his bid for reelection, according to unofficial returns Wednesday. To make matters worse for challenger Tony DeLoreto, the Indiana restaurateur was recently diagnosed with covid-19 and could not go to the polls or conduct...
Democrats losing paths to Senate control as GOP hangs onVideo
WASHINGTON — Hopes fading for Senate control, Democrats had a disappointing election night as Republicans swatted down an onslaught of challengers and fought to retain their fragile majority. Several races remained undecided into Wednesday and at least one headed to a runoff in January. It was a jarring outcome for...
Pennsylvania vote goes smoothly, but tallying may take timeVideo
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania voters turned out in large numbers Tuesday for an election that produced few of the glitches some had feared, leaving in their wake a mountain of ballots that will have to be counted in the coming days amid intense national scrutiny. The battleground state’s decision to greatly...
Georgia Republican who supports QAnon wins U.S. House seat
ATLANTA — Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories in a series of online videos, has won a U.S. House seat representing northwest Georgia. Her candidacy was bolstered by President Donald Trump, who has called her a “future Republican Star.” Greene was heavily...
Pennsylvania emerges as online misinformation hotspot on election day
A single voting machine jammed for just minutes Tuesday morning at a precinct in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton — but misleading posts on Facebook and Twitter claimed multiple machines there were down for hours. Pennsylvania emerged as a hotspot for online misinformation on Election Day. Facebook and Twitter scrambled...
