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A Lehigh Valley school district has announced that it has suspended a teacher who was part of a pro-Trump protest that turned into a violent riot at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.
Normally a formality in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, Monday’s meeting of presidential electors received far greater attention than usual, as President Donald Trump continues to deny the results of November’s election. Trump lost the race to Democrat Joe Biden, but has refused to concede.
Though likely doomed, the effort comes as GOP leaders continue to cast doubt on the integrity of Pennsylvania’s vote-by-mail process and the November election.
Only President-elect Joe Biden’s electors will go to Harrisburg on Dec. 14 to formally cast their support for the former vice president, who won Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes.
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Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to become president-elect of the United States Saturday, capturing Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes and more than the 270 needed in the Electoral College to claim victory.
Republicans will maintain their control of the Pennsylvania state House and Senate following Tuesday’s election, in which efforts by Democrats to flip seats like the one currently held by state Rep. Justin Simmons largely failed.
Most of the votes in Northampton County had been counted as of early Wednesday, and according to the unofficial results published on its website Hellertown borough and Lower Saucon Township voters diverged in terms of who they chose.
Two readers contacted Saucon Source independently of each other Tuesday to report that poll workers assigned to work in District #3 in Lower Saucon Township weren’t wearing face masks, in spite of a county elections requirement that they wear them due to the coronavirus pandemic.
