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Posts tagged with Election 2016

Last Updated: Mar. 09, 2018 · 12:39 p.m.

Apparently this Philadelphia-based venture capitalist is considering a run for president — he’s conducted 20 focus groups across the country in the last year

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Is the ‘Trump effect’ why Philly stormed the polls on Tuesday?

Some city Democrats say yes — and think it bodes well for 2020.

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Main Line Donald Trump fans wait (and wait) for ‘beautiful mouthpiece’ Ivanka

The audience was mostly white and mostly old and probably two-thirds female.

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Calvin Tucker, a GOP delegate from Pennsylvania, talks on MSNBC before the primary.

Meet the black Republican trying like hell to get Donald Trump votes in Philly

Calvin Tucker's pitch boils down to two words: "Why not?"

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

New Pennsylvania poll shows Hillary dominating Trump in the suburbs

It's a 28 point lead -- 18 points larger than Obama's margin over Romney in 2012.

Students at Penn staged a large, feminist protest against Donald Trump on campus

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Pa. ballot question about judge retirement age sparks bitter Harrisburg fight

"Like something out of North Korea."

Kenney, offering the early election prediction

Tweet from @floodthedrummer

McGinty campaign releases attack ad with excerpts of Trump Tapes

We rate this statement as Mostly False.

Donald Trump confuses Eat’n Park with its famous Smiley Cookie

The western Pennsylvania diner with a signature dessert that’s technically not its name.

Left to right: GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump; Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway; Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

7 ties that bind Donald Trump and his campaign to the Philly area

The NYC-centered campaign shares DNA with the 215.

New NBC/Marist poll: Katie McGinty is leading Pat Toomey in the Senate race by 4 percentage points

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Map! Where 2.3 million unregistered Pennsylvania voters live

Philly and Allegheny counties lead the way.

Pat Toomey finds another new way to avoid saying whether he’s supporting Trump

Tweet from @JonathanTamari

Philly comes in at No. 7 nationally in debate ratings

Tweet from @mulvihill79

Members of the audience cheer during a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg.

No sign yet of Trump’s PA ‘poll watchers,’ and why it’s unlikely anyway

Poll watchers aren't what he thinks they are.

Anne Holton greets supporters before the start of the vice presidential debate at Longwood University.

Anne Holton from the Philly ‘burbs on Hillary Clinton’s 2nd debate prospects

The Democratic candidate will "hit it out of the park" tonight.

Tim Kaine speaks in front of Spring Garden School in Philadelphia, Oct. 6, 2016

Tim Kaine, America’s Dad, stopped at a Philly school Thursday

“A teacher once said to me a farmer doesn’t grow its pig by weighing it more times.” What?

We rate this statement as False.

Attack ad’s unsubstantiated claim on Pat Toomey, Trump and abortion

No, Pat Toomey wouldn't punish women who have abortions.

Trump Hillary Clinton

Hillary’s dominating Trump in PA, from cash to campaign offices

Clinton has raised nearly as much money from Philadelphians as The Donald has from the entire state.