Jonathan Tamari
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Congress reporter @BGov | Ex @PhillyInquirer national politics reporter, Eagles beat writer | Runner| @NorthwesternU |Jersey boy| [email protected]
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Joined March 2009
The Divided States of Pennsylvania:. My tour of PA from the urban Acela corridor to rural farmland to Appalachia to the industrial Midwest to show what makes the state so complex and politically competitive. Hop on for the ride:.
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There are still 2.2m mail ballots to be counted in PA - about 87% of the total. Settle in.
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Defense: How can we know Trump's words actually led to the violence?. Dems: Here's a guy with a bullhorn reading out the presidents tweet as they storm the Capitol.
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Fetterman at his Philly rally asks everyone to hold up a hand if they have had a health problem, or a parent or child with a health problem. "I hope that you didn’t have a doctor in your life making fun of it, laughing at you, telling you that you’re not able to do your job".
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Dem Rep. Al Greene - wheeled in just as the vote appeared headed toward a tie, no shoes on, in what looked like hospital scrubs as pants - said he had surgery. But came to vote against the impeachment. Hakeem Jeffries shook his hand after he arrived.
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Trump says "we have a lot of ppl standing outside" and he "broke the all time record" in this arena. There are rows of empty seats here
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ATL Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms asked right now on CNN if President Trump is capable of delivering a unifying national message:. “I think he is capable of reading one.”.
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People are smashing glass in the doors to the House chamber. Police have guns drawn and aimed at the door.
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Lackawanna County - 92% of the vote counted:.Fetterman has 57% of the vote.Shapiro has 61%. Biden got 54%.This is where SCRANTON is.
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Lamb stmt:."Our entire democracy is on the line in Nov. Dems need to be unequivocally united in our defense of this democracy, and we will be. John’s vote in the Senate is essential to protect this democracy, & he will have my vote in November. I will do everything I can to help".
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PAs Mike Kelly (R) raising questions about whether PAs Act 77 (on voting laws) was constitutional. It was passed with huge bipartisan support through the GOP-led state legislature. Signed a year before the 2020 election. No one objected to it until after Trump lost.
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Where PA stands:.- Trump's edge is down to about 300k. - About 900k mail ballots uncounted yet. - Biden still winning 78% of those. - If - again IF - that % holds, Biden would surpass Trump's advantage.
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Trump for months mocked Biden for playing it safe around the virus and "hiding in his basement.". Now Biden hits the road during the final stretch while Trump is forced to stay home.
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Someone - looked like security but I can't be sure - just rushed Steny Hoyer off the floor. Someone on the Dem side stood and yelled to Republicans; "This is because of you!".
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Inbox: Sen. John Fetterman calls for “every one of my colleagues” to join and expel Sen. Menendez . “We cannot have an alleged foreign agent in the United States Senate. This is not a close call.”.
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Kevin McCarthy says on the House floor that the attack on the Capitol was not done by Antifa.
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POTUS recap: Obama did not do enough to respond to Russian hacking. I, on the other hand, will cooperate with Russia.
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Josh Shapiro on beef with Fetterman:.“I have no idea. You’ve got to ask Fetterman. Or I would say you should ask his spokesperson, but I think they're not on the same page either.”. At @business roundtable this morning.
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Good morning. In PA, here's where Biden's hopes hang:.He has won 77% of mail ballots counted so far. There are 1.4m left to count. IF - if - that pace continues, he'd net a 787k edge - and is trailing by 657k.(and since much of blue PA is left to count, poss he might exceed 77%).
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Biden campaign call:."We will win by a sizable number of votes in Pennsylvania". Trump campaign is saying the same, but data and remaining votes right now appear to support the Biden team.
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Ratcliffe: To impeach President Trump, Democrats have to call him a liar.Someone whispering in the audience: He is a liar.
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Today, Philly's @CongBoyle plans to introduce the "Stable Genius Act" to require all presidential candidates have a standardized medical exam & disclose the results before an election.
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And the 3 largest counties in PA have all counted less than 25% apiece.
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The Bidens left chalk messages after volunteering at Philly's @Philabundance . "Philly Strong! Thank you for all you do—Love, Jill Biden". "Thank you for giving people in need the most valuable thing that can be given. HOPE" - Joe Biden
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Correction: Biden referred to Fetterman as "that big ol' boy".
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This is breaking my brain today. From WaPo’s Daily Brief - on a poll of undecided voters in several swing states:
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WaPo's Greg Miller - who broke story - says on CNN WH is "playing word games." Says McMaster denied actions they didn't actually report.
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This is how big the Philly suburbs were for Biden:.He is +283,061 votes in Bucks, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery Counties. That's +94,708 (and counting) vs Clinton. A 50% (!!!) increase over her margin.
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If you're still interested:.Joe Biden's lead in PA is up to 45,727. Slightly more than Trump's 44,292-vote win in 2016. About 54,300 mail ballots left to count this year - with the biggest chunks coming from Philly and Allegheny County.
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NEWS: PA Sen Pat Toomey will not run for governor or reelection in 2022. Announcement expected Monday. He'll serve out his current senate term. w/ @wbender99 .
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Spotted @GovernorTomWolf at the Capitol and asked his thoughts on today:.“Sad.”.Why sad?.“It’s a military camp.”.His voice broke and he walked away.
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"These objections don't deserve an ounce of respect. Not an ounce." says PAs Conor Lamb (D).
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Announcement inside secure location: "The Capitol is secure." . Lawmakers applaud.
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NEWS: Sen. Pat Toomey will co-sponsor the Senate bill to reform how Electoral College votes are counted - giving it 10 GOP cosponsors, enough to clear filibuster .(if all 50 Dems also support it).
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Beto - in the white shirt - leading a “We are!” “Penn State” chant in a huge crowd at PSU
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It's Friday night and it's starting to get wild in the Senate:.Sen. Romney returned from the cloakroom with a glass of chocolate milk and drained it in a matter of minutes @lindsaywise reports from the chamber.
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BREAKING: possible VP nominee will be in the place where he lives
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The PA Republicans who signed onto a fake certificate of electors included 2 now running for Gov (Barletta, Gerow) and some of the party's top state and county officials, including the national cmte man, state party vice chair & deputy chair.
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And . of the 2.5 million total mail ballots cast, around 66% were from Democrats. So again: long way to go.
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PAs @SenToomey (R) acknowledges Joe Biden’s win and urges the transition process to proceed:.“I congratulate President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory. They are both dedicated public servants and I will be praying for them and for our country”
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Inbox: 5 former Homeland Security secretaries, including ex Trump chief of staff John Kelly, ex Pa Gov Tom Ridge and NJs Michael Chertoff write joint letter urging Trump, Congress to fund the Dept.
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New: the estranged wife of Pa Senate candidate Sean Parnell testified under oath that he choked her, pinned her down and berated her - calling her a piece of shit - and once slapped one of their children so hard it left welts thru a t shirt .
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Peter Meijer losing in Michigan is like someone named John Wawa losing in Delaware County.
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NEW: Pa @SenToomey (R) says it’s “completely unacceptable” for President Trump to push state lawmakers to overturn the state’s election results:.
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Conor Lamb comment that set off the near clash on the House floor :."We know that that attack today, it didn't materialize out of nowhere, it was inspired by lies, the same lies that you're hearing in this room tonight.".(full quote below)
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The outstanding ballots in PA are NOT new votes. The 1.4m this morning are votes that were cast and arrived on or before Election Day. They have simply not been counted yet.
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Bernie suggests he's going to stay in the race to try to push Biden to take more liberal stands on key issues - not mapping a path to winning, but hoping to keep moving Biden.
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Rand Paul is on the Senate floor railing against deficits. Voted for the tax bill.
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Inbox: Joe Biden condemns violence in Portland:. “I condemn violence of every kind by anyone, whether on the left or the right. And I challenge Donald Trump to do the same.”
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And of course I’ve got a typo … it’s Al *Green … tho a vote by Al Greene would also have been an unexpected twist.
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Doug Mastriano shared a poll that was apparently conducted next week … and only gets more implausible from there
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- "100k votes just showed up" .- “people voting 2 or 3 times".- dead people voting to help Biden .All lies delivered by GOP congressmen from PA in the weeks after the election, amplifying the beliefs that fueled last week's riot. W/@AndrewSeidman .
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For me one of the most telling things about Jan 6 - and that sometimes gets lost in the blur of events - is that the objections to PA happened *after* the riot. There was literally blood in the halls and broken windows in the House chamber as they continued the effort.
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Look, I try to show some grace on this web site because it is sorely needed. But this might be the worst most uninformed take I have ever seen. Pat Toomey ran against Arlen Specter twice and chased him out of the GOP.
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Not long ago if you had Mitch McConnell, the WSJ edit board and Chamber of Commerce all endorsing a deal negotiated by a conservative Oklahoma senator, it would be a slam dunk with GOP Senators. Those folks aren't running the show anymore.
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Fetterman is on track to win PA by a larger % than Biden in 20, or Trump or Toomey in 16.
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PAs @SenToomey (R) had a call with Joe Biden last week, congratulated him on his victory. "The outcome of the election is clear and that is that Joe Biden won the election".
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Charlie Dent, in another of his digs at POTUS, said the White House "took the fun out of dysfunction".
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Sen. Fetterman and family arrive for his ceremonial swearing in with VP Harris
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Amazing. Andy Kim jumped into this race without insider support - and he gets the payoff for having the guts to take a big risk. He captured massive grassroots energy and is now almost assuredly NJs next senator.
Confirmed Tammy Murphy is suspending her Senate campaign. It's over.
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PA Thurs morning:.- Trump's lead down to 159k (was 657k Wed morning).- Still about 484k mail ballots to count (from on/before Election Day) - incl some 100k in Philly.- Biden winning 77.5% of mail ballots counted so far .- If this continues, would easily pass Trump.
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Inbox: John Fetterman's office says he checked himself into Walter Reed hospital last night to receive treatment for clinical depression.
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As someone who covered a closely contested swing state through November, let me say thanks and respect to the GA reporters who basically crossed a marathon finish line, and were then told to go run another 10 miles - and have done it.
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One thing you hear a lot from voters in Michigan: people who remember Biden's role in the auto rescue. Still resonates here.
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Sean Parnell's team had hoped a favorable ruling would help dispel the abuse claims. Instead, his wife emerges with primary physical custody and sole legal custody. Likely devastating to his campaign.
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Here's another part of the arena where Trump says people have been left standing outside. Lots of ppl here, but not at all capacity
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If it’s really down to Shapiro and Walz, I don’t see how you get around the impact of PAs 19 electoral votes . Yes, Walz *might* help win Pa. Shapiro *has* won PA. 3 times.
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“They’re in the rotunda. Police using tear gas in the Capitol”.It’s still hard to believe I wrote that. What I saw in the House chamber Wednesday as the mob closed in:.
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New: PAs Madeleine Dean has written to Dem colleagues announcing she's running for vice chair of the Democratic House caucus.
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This has been said many times, but still remarkable: we're minutes away from a committee vote, and a short drive away is a witness who has not been asked to appear and answer questions.
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@Leh_ber_tee Absolutely- there was a huge crowd & I tweeted that several times too. that's not the same as all time record and ppl left standing outside.
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There's been a lot of talk about indirect swipes at Trump in the McCain services this week. Meghan McCain's eulogy is not indirect.
.@MeghanMcCain: "We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness. The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly".
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Mehmet Oz gave his campaign another $2m yesterday. That’s $4m in the last WEEK.He’s put in more than $25m to try to win this senate seat.
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LeBron plays a very limited role for the Cavs
Wow - Spicer now describing Manafort as playing a "very limited role" for a "very limited" time. He was chairman of the campaign!!!.
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"You have to watch what we're going to do to 60 Minutes . Leslie Stahl's not going to be happy". - Trump, 2 weeks from election day in a key swing county in key swing state.
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AP calls PA7 for Dem Susan Wild - completing a Democratic sweep of all the top races in Pennsylvania. There were 3 PA House seats Rs thought they could win, PA7, PA8, PA17, but Dems held them all.
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On a flight for less than 2 hours, land to another mass shooting, a day after a guy was arrested for mailing out bombs. In my life it has never felt so much like a world coming apart at the seams.
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NJs Jeff Van Drew:."Nearly half the country supports our current president - this takes their voice away". (He voted to throw out PA and AZ votes).
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Ron Johnson was asked about the Gaetz nomination and responded by showing reporters a photo of Rachel Levine, the transgender Asst Sec. of Health. He asked if reporters asked Democrats about her. Not aware of any ethics investigation she was the subject of.
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Jan 6 was a major reason Dems gave for refusing to rescue McCarthy. Said it then and it still holds: you cannot overstate how much that day is seared in Dems’ minds, and how it has poisoned any potential trust.
A majority of House Republicans voted not to certify so that means Jeffries wouldn’t support folks like Rules Committee Chair Tom Cole and most of the House GOP leadership.
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One potential big change with Fetterman replacing Toomey: No more bipartisan negotiations on district court judges. Biden, Casey, Fetterman will have a much freer hand the next 2 years - when judicial appointments might be the biggest thing that comes out of the Senate.
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Biden closes by urging voters to send Shapiro to Senate, and elect "that big guy" as Gov - reversing the offices Shapiro and Fetterman are actually running for.
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A reminder: despite having the power of the presidency, four years time and a campaign apparatus with vast resources, Trump has never proven a single actual case of voter fraud in PA. The tiny handful of prosecutions that did happen were mostly - if not all - of Trump voters.
Trump appears to be laying the groundwork to contest Pennsylvania election results, claiming without evidence this morning that the whole commonwealth somehow is cheering at “large scale levels”
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Trump says if he nominated Ted Cruz for SCOTUS he would have had "100%" of the Senate voting to move him out. "Even the Democrats".
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PA mail ballots approved for the Tues primary:.Dems: 1.3 million.GOP: 525k."We’re kind of listening to Trump on this" says one GOP chair.Via @AndrewSeidman .
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One of the great ironies of this comparison - and the reasons behind it - is that one of Fetterman's explicit pitches during the 2022 Dem primary was that he would NOT be another Senator like Joe Manchin. It was a key line at his campaign events.
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Remember: Republicans freaked out because Bill Clinton (who had no formal government authority) had a *conversation* with the Attorney General while there was an investigation into Hillary Clinton. Trump and/or Barr have gone miles beyond that.
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your semi-regular reminder to support regional reporting. Buffalo News' @JerryZremski broke the story that exposed Collins and led to this.
Rep. Chris Collins has resigned effective today, per House source.
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Fetterman announces his transition co chairs:.Adam Jentleson, a former top aide to Harry Reid (and avid pro Fetterman Twitter-er) . Kristen Gentile, Chief of Staff to Bob Casey.
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HI's @brianschatz says there should be "shame" that lawmakers act when air travel is disrupted, but not when food stamps, paychecks, etc are affected."If the elites are imperiled or inconvenienced in any way at all, game over. And shame on us if that's what it takes".
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BREAKING: @RepMeehan will not seek reelection amid sexual harassment furor. Informed Paul Ryan's office today:
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BREAKING: Dave McCormick concedes to Mehmet Oz in PA Sen primary.
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If you accept that the president misspoke we're to believe that he stated the exact opposite of his beliefs in a huge moment watched around the world - and the WH just let it sit for a full day without anyone trying to correct the record.
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Hint: They don't do this because they want to surprise voters with how much money they saved.
Mnuchin seeks delay of proposed disclosure of Secret Service spending on presidential travel until next year - The Washington Post
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Inbox: New Jersey Chamber of Commerce comes out AGAINST House GOP tax bill. "This proposal is exactly what we do not need at this time".
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If Florida is truly off the map as a competitive state - say it with me - Pennsylvania is the most valuable swing state in 2024.
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Toomey (R):.“With today’s decision by Judge Brann, a longtime conservative R whom I know to be a fair and unbiased jurist, to dismiss the Trump campaign’s lawsuit, President Trump has exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pa”
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Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by 80,555 votes, exceeding the 44,292-vote margin Trump won in 2016. With the result certified, me and @Elaijuh look at the numbers behind the results. It begins with a huge Dem suburban surge:.
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