by Jim Heath | Oct 6, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines
More than 4.2 million people have already voted early in the presidential election, vastly exceeding the pace of 2016 as Democrats amass a commanding lead in returned mail ballots. In the 2016 election, around 75,000 people had voted early at this point, across...
by Jim Heath | Oct 6, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines, Joe Biden
Joe Biden delivered a forceful call for national unity today from the swing state of Pennsylvania, casting the nation as a “house divided” and the election as a high-stakes contest defined by seismic issues of life-or-death consequence that, he argued, should...
by Jim Heath | Sep 30, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Democrats, GOP, Headlines
Democratic voters who have requested mail ballots — and returned them — greatly outnumber Republicans so far in key battleground states, causing alarm among GOP party leaders and strategists that President Trump’s attacks on mail voting could be hurting the party’s...
by Jim Heath | Sep 28, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines, Joe Biden
For a Republican to win the electoral votes in battleground Ohio, they need to carry places like Van Wert County by a landslide. Donald Trump carried the northwest Ohio county with 76 percent of the vote in 2016, burying Hillary Clinton who barely reached 20 percent....
by Jim Heath | Sep 26, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines
Luzerne County, Pa., is Trump country. Trump won the county by nearly 20 points four years ago and has returned multiple times since, holding rallies in the county seat of Wilkes-Barre in 2018 and at a manufacturing facility in the county in the past month. It is not,...
by Jim Heath | Sep 26, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines
Early voting is already underway in Florida, the biggest swing state in the nation, as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump fight over its 29 electoral votes. The Florida Department of State reported today that over 6,600 mail-in ballots have...
