Police who guard the Pennsylvania Capitol are working to be more visible and have been coordinating plans with other agencies to secure the building since a violent mob stormed and occupied the U.S. Capitol last week, a Department of General Services spokesperson said Monday.
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Closing the gap
Democrats in Pennsylvania still have a registration edge of 700,000 over Republicans, with 4.2 million Democrats, compared to 3.5 million Republicans. However, the GOP has been making gains, while Democrats have seen small losses.
Over the last four years, Republicans added 205,000 registered voters, while Democrats saw their total registration slip by 10,000.
Nowhere has this trend been more pronounced than Westmoreland County. As recently as 25 years ago, Democrats there boasted a 2-1 registration edge, but Republicans took the lead in registered voters in 2019. Deb Erdley
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Pennsylvania Republicans showed Trump’s grip on the party after the attack on the Capitol Jonathan Tamari, Andrew Seidman, The Philadelphia Inquirer
WASHINGTON After the riots, as bloodstains and bullet holes marked the Capitol and police in tactical gear monitored the halls, several Republican lawmakers decided enough was enough.
They had planned to support President Donald Trump’s push to overturn his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, but backed off after the dark events of Wednesday, when a mob, fueled by lies about a stolen election, interrupted a step in the peaceful transition of power and desecrated the seat of popular representation. “The events that transpired have forced me to reconsider, and I cannot now in good conscience object to the certification of these electors,” Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R., Ga.) said on the Senate floor Wednesday evening.