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✅ Republican Party PollTarrance’s Alexandria, Virginia-based group surveyed 404 likely voters in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District and found that the margin of victory between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris was two percentage points, with a margin of +/-4.9.
Trump received 48 percent support, while Harris received 46 percent in the poll co-commissioned by the National Republican Campaign Committee and GOP candidate Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh). [Read more]
The best story
1. Almost everything on Wall Street is falling on fears that the United States is heading towards an economic slowdown
“Wall Street is all but down on Monday as concerns about a slowing U.S. economy intensify, sparking another sell-off in financial markets around the world.
The S&P 500 was down 2.4% at midday and is on track for its worst day in 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 864 points, or 2.2%, as of 11:40 a.m. ET, while the Nasdaq Composite was down 2.7%.
The declines were just the latest in a global sell-off that began last week. Japan’s Nikkei 225 helped kick off Monday by falling 12.4%, its worst day since the 1987 Black Monday crash. (AP)
Country
2. Harris, fracking and Shapiro: Democratic campaign seeks breakthrough in Pennsylvania
“Vice President Kamala Harris“The decision to withdraw its support for a fracking ban does nothing to assuage the concerns of the fossil fuel industry and its workers — and of Pennsylvania’s advocates. Governor Josh Shapiro see opening.
Some Democratic allies worry that Harris’s about-face on fracking still leaves her particularly vulnerable in Pennsylvania. What Harris needs now, party supporters say, is someone like Shapiro — who has carved out a middle path in the nation’s second-largest natural gas-producing state — as vice president. (Political)
Elections
3. Dates handwritten on postal ballots have no significance, lawyers tell Community court
The date that voters must write on their ballot envelopes serves no real purpose and should be ignored as a basis for accepting those ballots, lawyers argued Thursday in a key case that could significantly change Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting rules. But Republican lawyers defended the law, saying the date could be useful in checking for voter fraud.
The state court heard arguments in a case filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the Public Interest Law Center on behalf of voting rights groups that seeks to end enforcement of a state law requirement that voters write the date they cast their absentee ballot on their return envelope.SpotlightPA)
Editorial
4. What do you mean
- Pennsylvania’s energy past may turn out to be its energy future. (Representative Tom Mehaffie)
- This should be our response to Donald Trump’s comment that “you won’t have to vote anymore.”Jonathan Zimmerman)
- Ensuring the future of Social Security and Medicare for Northeastern Pennsylvania.Rob Bresnahan)
- Shapiro doesn’t have to apologize for the prescient column he wrote 31 years ago. (David Switzerland)
- Time for Kamala (by Edi Sadek)
1 Olympic Thing
5. Pennsylvania native and Penn State graduate Joe Kovacs wins silver medal at Olympics
“Joe Kovacs, a Pennsylvania native and Penn State graduate, won a silver medal in the shot put on day eight of the Olympic Games.
Kovacs rebounded from fourth place with the medal-winning throw on his final attempt, after a brief rain made the throwing surface slippery and caused several throwers to slip and fall.
Despite the conditions, Kovacs took a chance and shot 22.15 meters, winning the silver.” (WGAL)
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