Philly disc jockey Jerry Blavat thought former Vice President Joe Biden was shaking hands and posing for pictures at Blavat's nightclub, Memories, in Margate last Saturday. He even broadcast it on his radio show. Alas, it was a look-alike.
Pa. is a swing state with 20 electoral votes, tied for fifth most, and helped tip the 2016 election to President Donald Trump. How could he win again here in 2020? That equation is more complicated.
People who showed up to watch President Trump's reelection announcement said they were part of a silent majority in the Philadelphia suburbs, one that would grow more vocal heading into the 2020 election.
“Do everything Pennsylvania did the last time around and then some,” Pence told about 350 people at a fundraising dinner at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg.
Changing neighborhoods mean changing residents, and in West Philly there were clear differences between areas that voted for the longtime incumbent and ones that supported her ultimately successful challenger.
Three longtime incumbents were ousted in Tuesday's Democratic primary, with varying causes but some commonalities in each race. For one thing, the winners all were younger women.
