Author: Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner

PITTSBURGH — Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) made a last-minute appeal to small-business owners to support Vice President Kamala Harris as his shadow looms over Harris’s presidential campaign the weekend before Election Day. “As usual, it seems like it’s coming down to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It may be that the only thing Kamala Harris and…

Vice President Kamala Harris and down-ticket Democrats may have overplayed their hand on abortion by making it the primary focus of their campaigns this election. A close look at recent election results and public polling reveals that, while Democrats have an advantage on the topic of abortion, it is not likely to prove determinative, and their…

PITTSBURGH — Former President Barack Obama began his first campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania in the short time left in the 2024 election season against former President Donald Trump. “Kamala is as prepared for the job as any…

Observers in Butler, Pennsylvania, estimate that as many as 100,000 people could attend former President Donald Trump‘s rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, nearly three months after he and several rallygoers were shot there in an attempted assassination. Local news outlets reported that supporters of the former president camped out at the…

The heir-apparent to Hezbollah‘s late Hassan Nasrallah has been out of contact since Friday following an Israeli airstrike targeting him. Israel launched the strike on Friday local time against Hashem Safieddine, striking a suburb south of Beirut, Lebanon. Safieddine was reportedly in a bunker during the blast, but Lebanese security forces have said that he…

Former New York Gov. David Paterson and his stepson were injured in an assault in the Upper East Side of Manhattan on Friday evening. Reports from the New York Police Department say that Paterson, 70, and his stepson, Anthony Sliwa, 20, were attacked by five people at about 8:30 p.m. on Friday following a verbal…

Supporters of former President Donald Trump on Friday were seen camping out in Butler, Pennsylvania, more than 24 hours before a rally for the former president, in hopes of getting closer to the action. Rallygoers have traveled from far and wide to attend the event at the Butler Farm Show site, the same venue where…

Democratic campaign strategists are increasingly worried that Vice President Kamala Harris’s light campaign schedule compared to that of former President Donald Trump could leave her at a disadvantage with a month before Election Day. Nearly two dozen Democrats, including some within the Harris campaign, spoke with Politico about how Harris may be playing it too…

House Republicans issued a subpoena on Tuesday for documents from New York regarding former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s involvement in the March 2020 policy requiring nursing homes to admit COVID-19-positive patients. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) announced the subpoena at the end of his opening statement for Cuomo’s first public…