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President-elect Donald Trump's win two weeks ago in Pennsylvania was always right in front of you if you were objectively listening to the concerns of the people and the data showing the most important, misread trend of all: The Republican Party had now become the party of work.

In interview after interview, waitresses, welders, rank-and-file...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- Walking out of the Allegheny County Republican election night event at a local luxury hotel, the young men waiting to valet my car got into a discussion with me about the just-announced election results.

All four men were in their 30s. Two were white, one was Black and the other Hispanic. As I traditionally do, I asked them how ...Read more

LATROBE, Pennsylvania -- "If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole damn thing."

Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump announced these words to rallygoers in this Westmoreland County town at a packed event, which included several former Pittsburgh Steelers and steelworkers taking the stage to endorse him; the steelworkers even got the ...Read more

McKEES ROCKS, Pennsylvania -- At the freshly renovated Roxian Theatre along Chartiers Avenue in a struggling river town, Loren Stephenson said she and her fiance, Alex Ames, had been standing at the front of the line since 8 a.m. to hear billionaire Elon Musk speak at 2 p.m.

Stephenson, a Duquesne University professor, said she came to see ...Read more

Barbara Clark is the perfect example of a voter, whether Black, white, Hispanic or from any other ethnic group, who defies stereotypes. This defiance often leads to voters such as her being overlooked as people who could change not just the presidential election but also the majority in the Senate.

Clark is a Black female who has been a ...Read more

BUTLER, Pennsylvania -- Elon Musk said the reason he was in Butler on Oct. 5 to speak at former President Donald Trump's rally was because of the critical nature of this year's presidential election.

"The reason I'm here is because I think this is the most important election in our lifetime. This may be the most important election that has ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- When former President Barack Obama comes to Pittsburgh on Thursday to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in the home stretch for next month's election, he will be returning to a very different western Pennsylvania from the one he won robustly in 2008 and less so in 2012.

In 2008, Obama ran on a message of aspiration, ...Read more

KITTANING, Pennsylvania -- Jennifer Krantz was in the checkout line at Sprankle's grocery store in this Armstrong County city with her three boys, Brayden, Eddie and Frederick, along with her husband, Bryant, when former President Donald Trump handed the clerk waiting on them a $100 bill.

"Here, it is going to go down a little bit," Trump ...Read more

Ahead of Election Day, a new national survey shows most voters know little about the personal impacts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which is set to expire at the end of 2025.

The survey, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies on behalf of Stand Together, shows that 76% of voters, an overwhelming majority, say now is a bad time to increase ...Read more

OAKMONT, Pennsylvania -- Four years ago, Douglas Hohman turned old enough to vote. He had turned 18 years old in May, yet, for a number of reasons, he never got around to voting for either President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump.

The year 2020, Hohman explained, was not the best for him.

"It was my senior year when COVID hit, ...Read more

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania -- Former President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner that his message to undecided voters in Pennsylvania ahead of November's general election is that his administration would bring prosperity to Pennsylvanians through common-sense approaches to energy, border security and strengthening ...Read more

ERIE, Pennsylvania -- The chaser last Wednesday in Sen. JD Vance's (R-Ohio) trip to this all-important county in the northwestern corner of Pennsylvania came when the Republican vice presidential nominee said Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris can "go to hell" for her handling of the 2021 attack at Abbey Gate in the final days of ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- Billed as a Pittsburgh kickoff bus tour on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz instead spent Aug. 18 in Beaver County in tightly controlled stops before heading to Chicago.

Harris held a short rally at a private airport hangar ...Read more