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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
Mehmet Oz wins Pa. Senate primary ahead of showdown with Fetterman
HARRISBURG — Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Senate primary on Wednesday, narrowly defeating former hedge fund CEO David McCormick after a dayslong recount. Oz will face Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in November in a race that could...
Mississippi lawmaker with ethics woes forced into GOP runoff
LOS ANGELES — U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo of Mississippi advanced to a Republican runoff Tuesday after a congressional ethics watchdog raised questions about his campaign spending and he faced his largest-ever field of primary challengers. In heavily Democratic California, Republican House members faced primary rivals in races that will help...
Westmoreland County to break election ties on Wednesday, results to be certified Friday
Westmoreland County election officials on Wednesday will break ties in the more than 300 deadlocked races in the May primary. The tie-breaking process will begin at 10 a.m. at the courthouse and be conducted through a random casting of lots. Candidates in each of the tied races will select numbered...
Westmoreland issues final certification of results for the May primary
Results from most races in last month’s primary election were certified Monday afternoon by the Westmoreland County Elections Board. County commissioners, who serve as members of the board, signed off on the final official results from the key ballot races that saw Republicans and Democrats nominate candidates for governor, U.S....
Arizona judge declines GOP request to block mail voting
PHOENIX — An Arizona judge on Monday declined a request by the state Republican Party to block most mail ballots for the 2022 election, preserving the voting method used by the overwhelming majority of voters. Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen ruled that nothing in the Arizona Constitution prohibits...
Allegheny County announces successful write-in candidates, completes recount
Following a somewhat contentious recount process and a close statewide election that was eventually conceded, Allegheny County officials certified most of its election results on Monday for the 2022 primary. The Allegheny County Board of Elections met at 10 a.m. and unanimously certified the results of all county elections, with...
2022 midterms: What to watch in primaries in 7 states
LOS ANGELES — Primary elections in seven states Tuesday will set the stage for U.S. House and Senate races this fall, with many contests shaped by political fissures in both major parties and the lingering shadow of former President Donald Trump. With control of Congress in play, a string of...
Westmoreland Democrats leadership vote delayed in fallout over GOP Senate primary vote count
Despite the fact that David McCormick dropped out of the Republican primary race for U.S. Senate, it was the fallout from the continued fight over votes that prompted Westmoreland County Democrats on Friday to indefinitely postpone their weekend meeting to elect a new party chairperson. Democratic Committee Chairwoman Tara Yokopenic...
‘We came so close’: McCormick concedes GOP race for U.S. Senate; Oz to face Fetterman
Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick on Friday dropped out of the close Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Mehmet Oz. The concession means Oz will face Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat, in the fall. “We came so close,” McCormick, 56, said at the...
John Fetterman reveals undisclosed heart condition that led to stroke
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman revealed Friday in a campaign statement that he was diagnosed with a heart condition in 2017 and didn’t follow up with a physician for years until he suffered a stroke in May. Fetterman said the condition led to his stroke. His campaign also released...
Democrats, Republicans fight to a redistricting stalemate
After nearly a year of partisan battles, number-crunching and lawsuits, the once-a-decade congressional redistricting cycle is ending in a draw. That leaves Republicans positioned to win control of the House of Representatives even if they come up just short of winning a majority of the national vote. That frustrates Democrats,...
Pa. court orders contested ballots counted in Senate primary
HARRISBURG — A state court agreed Thursday night in a ballot-counting lawsuit with the campaign of David McCormick, who is in a neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. In the decision, Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer ordered counties to count...
Westmoreland County on pace to finish recount in GOP Senate race on Friday
Westmoreland County election officials said the state-ordered recount of ballots cast in last month’s Republican U.S. Senate primary is on pace to be completed Friday. About 15 county staffers worked 12-hour shifts Wednesday and Thursday to scan the more than 87,000 ballots cast this spring. “The worst-case scenario is we...
Explainer: Can GOP gov. candidate Mastriano make voters reregister?
HARRISBURG — Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican candidate for governor, has made no secret of his endorsement of former President Trump’s assertion that widespread fraud cost him the 2020 election. A state senator and retired Army colonel, Mastriano says he wants to make everyone reregister if they want to vote again....
Allegheny County recount begins for Pa.’s Republican U.S. Senate race
Election workers in Allegheny County on Wednesday braved the heat inside the county’s election warehouse on Pittsburgh’s North Side to conduct a recount of votes cast in the May 17 primary. The recount was triggered by a state law because the race between celebrity surgeon Mehmet Oz and former hedge...
Write-in candidate wins Democratic primary to run for 55th District state House seat
A retired corporate executive has won the Democratic primary to run for the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives seat in the 55th District. Westmoreland County elections officials Tuesday issued a precertification of results from the May primary that included more than 600 write-in votes for Scott Gauss of Murrysville in...
Supreme Court order could affect Pennsylvania Senate count
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the counting of some mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, an order that could affect the tight Republican Senate primary between former hedge fund CEO David McCormick and celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. An order from Justice Samuel Alito paused a lower-court...
Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns
PITTSBURGH — The victory party took on the feel of an evangelical worship service after Doug Mastriano won Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial primary this month. As a Christian singer led the crowd in song, some raised their arms toward the heavens in praise. Mastriano opened his remarks by evoking Scripture: “God...
Allegheny County recount to begin Wednesday for GOP Senate race
A recount of votes cast in Allegheny County in the Republican primary race for U.S. Senate will begin at 8 a.m. Wednesday, elections division officials announced Friday. Allegheny County’s recount, ordered by Acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman, will occur at the county’s Elections Division Warehouse. The margin in the...
High-profile GOP primary losses could make Pitt funding a target in Pa. budget process
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — The primary defeat of one of Harrisburg’s top budget negotiators and the potential loss of another could embolden a...
Provisional ballots challenged as Westmoreland officials gear up for recount
John Holwell had no intention of letting the ballot he cast this month be invalidated, so he came to the Westmoreland County Courthouse on Friday armed with information to defend his vote. “I was ready to do battle,” said Holwell, 66, of Madison. Holwell’s provisional ballot was one of eight...
Oz declares ‘presumptive win’ in Pa. GOP’s U.S. Senate primary
Dr. Mehmet Oz has seen enough, and he isn’t waiting for a recount. Sitting on a 910-vote lead in preliminary, unofficial tallies from Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary race as of Friday morning, Oz declared himself the presumptive winner in a new video release in which he took a definitive turn...
Michigan GOP governor hopefuls off ballot, court fight next
Two of the leading candidates for the GOP nomination for Michigan governor say they will ask the courts to intervene after they were found ineligible Thursday for the August primary, reshaping the race to challenge Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the battleground state this fall. Former Detroit Police Chief James...
Abrams-Kemp slugfest promises to be pricey, long and ugly
ATLANTA — Georgia voters didn’t get much of a break from election talk on the day after the Tuesday primary in which Republican Gov. Brian Kemp demolished GOP challenger David Perdue and Democrat Stacey Abrams finally clinched a nomination waiting for her after no other members of her party jumped...
All but 30 ballots counted in Allegheny County as statewide recount in U.S. Senate race looms
Allegheny County election officials as of Wednesday had counted all but 30 challenged provisional ballots cast in last week’s primary, and hearings will be held Friday to determine whether the remaining ballots should be counted. Nearly 1,750 provisional ballots were scanned and tallied Tuesday and Wednesday, ultimately adding 103 votes...


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