October 21, 2024: Secret Service officers leave after a presidential campaign appearance, behind the stage along the Delaware River in Washington Crossing, Bucks County.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
With just 15 days before Election Day, the presidential campaigns are making their closing pitches to voters, zeroing in on our battleground state and we are seeing a lot of both candidates and their surrogates.
This past week President Biden, the First Lady, former President Trump, and JD Vance were all in Philadelphia and the collar counties.
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The flags above were at a Republicans for Harris event in Bucks County.
Dave Woods as Uncle Sam helps his friend Jim Miller (right) with his Statue of Liberty costume outside Washington Crossing Historic Park before the Harris event. Woods is plans on driving his big “America the Beautiful” truck in as many as five Halloween parades in the coming weeks. His daughter Jillian usually portrays Lady Liberty, but she was working so Miller filled in. Woods says of being in the parades: “The old guys even salute. I’ve never felt so patriotic in my whole life.”Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Law enforcement and park rangers are on duty before Harris’ arrival.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Former Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois speaks on stage before the arrival of Vice President Kamala Harris. He voted for former President Trump’s impeachment after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Former Republican Rep. Jim Greenwood, who represented Bucks County and now co-chairs the Republicans for Harris arm of the campaign takes to the stage.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Vice President Kamala Harris arrives.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Harris arrives at the event, not far from where George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River en route to a victory in the Revolutionary War. Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Vice President Kamala Harris arrives onstage at a Republicans for Harris event in Washington Crossing Wednesday. Oct. 16, 2024Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Harris greets Bob and Kristina Lange after they introduced her. The couple are Republican farmers from Malvern who previously voted for former President Donald Trump but are now supporting Harris. They appeared in a campaign ad supporting Harris, and then received a barrage of online harassment from Trump supporters.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Harris onstage with Republican supporters, including former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (at left in crowd at
right).Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Harris supporters, many of them Republicans.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Harris pledged to unify the country in a pitch to Republicans as she tries to expand support in Pennsylvania, the key battleground of the 2024 race.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Former elected Republicans are onstage as Harris speaks during a Republicans for Harris event.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a Republicans for Harris event in Washington Crossing Wednesday. Oct. 16, 2024Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Harris said she would be a president “for all Americans” and reiterated her pledge to appoint a Republican to her cabinet who would oversee a council for bipartisan solutions.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Vice President Harris greets the crowd of supporters after speaking at the Wednesday event.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Harris greets children in the crowd of supporters.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Former N.J. Governor Christine Todd Whitman (left) and other former elected Republicans greet supporters in the crowd after they appeared onstage with Vice President Kamala Harris at a Republicans for Harris event in Washington Crossing.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
The lights are turned off on the flags in the barn backdrop behind the stage after the appearance of Vice President Kamala Harris.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Workers roll up the American flags after the event.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
A television news crew waits to do their standup on the banks of the Delaware River in Washington Crossing Wednesday. Oct. 16, 2024, after Vice President Kamala Harris attended a Republicans for Harris event .Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
JJ James of Trevose parked his pickup truck in a space in a strip mall on Street Road outside the McDonald's in Feasterville on Sunday and left no doubt which presidential candidate he is supporting.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Faces in the crowd along Street Road photographed from a car stopped in a long line of traffic near the McDonald’s before the arrival of former President Trump. Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Thousands of Trump supporters line Street Road hours before his scheduled arrival.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Lisa Verani of Warminster carries her cardboard Trump cutout as she joins fellow Trump supporters along Street Road.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Faces in the crowd near the McDonald’s .Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
The scene outside the McDonald’s.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Security on the McDonald’s roof. Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
A Secret Service officer briefs pre-selected occupants of the first car in line at the drive-thru before the arrival of former President Trump.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
The motorcade of former PresidentTrump arrives at the McDonald’s.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
The news media traveling with former President Trump surround the first car in line at the McDonald’s while awaiting his appearance at the drive-thru window.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Former President Trump works the drive-thru window at the McDonald’s in Feasterville Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Former President Donald Trump works the drive-thru window at a McDonald’s.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Former President Trump said later, “I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala.”Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Former President Trump talks to reporters after he worked the drive-thru window at the Feasterville McDonald’s Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer
Since 1998, a black-and-white photo has appeared every Monday in staff photographer Tom Gralish’s “Scene Through the Lens” photo column in The Inquirer’s local news section. Here are the most recent, in color:
