Battleground PA

In the final episode of Battleground PA for the 2024 election season, PennLive's Joyce Davis and Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord speak with former Pa. House Republican leader Rep. Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster) and his successor, Rep. Jesse Topper (R-Bedford) about where the Republican party stands after the re-election of former President Donald Trump and what's in its future.

PennLive's Joyce Davis talks with Rogette Harris, chair of the Dauphin County Democrats, and Christopher Kowerdovich with the PA Democratic Party over the devastating effects of the election on the party, what went wrong, and how to move forward.

PennLive’s Joyce Davis, Republican analyst Jeffrey Lord, and Pennsylvania Capital-Star’s John Cole discuss former President Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidental election, as well as the yet-to-be called races such as the U.S. Senate race between Dem. Bob Casey and Rep. Dave McCormick. They also discuss the ramifications for the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania.

PennLive’s Joyce Davis, along with Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord, speak with Andrew Bloeser, a professor at Allegheny College and the director of the Center for Political Participation at the college.

PennLive's Joyce Davis speaks with representatives of the Council on Foreign Relations about the impact of international events in the 2024 elections.

PennLive's Joyce Davis is in Prague this week, so we are re-releasing a discussion with her and Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord with former U.S. Rep. Claudine Schneider, part of Former Republican Members of Congress for Harris, to discuss Vice President Kamala Harris' decision to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 campaign. Schneider was a Republican from Rhode Island in Congress from 1981 to 1991. Editor's note: Due to storms, Davis lost connection toward the end of the episode.

PennLive's Joyce Davis and Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord speak with former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, who is working with a nonpartisan coalition to educate and demystify the election progress. Pennsylvanians.

PennLive's Joyce Davis speaks with Sarah Towle, author of “Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands," about immigration issues in the 2024 election.

PennLive's Joyce Davis speaks with Marian Schneider of ACLU Pennsylvania about mail-in voting in the Commonwealth leading up to the 2024 election.

PennLive's Joyce Davis speaks with Mark Singel, who served as lieutenant governor from 1987 to 1995, stepping in for nearly six months in 1993 as acting governor when Gov. Bob Casey was unable to serve. Singel and Davis discuss the historic times we are living through, including a second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

PennLive's Joyce Davis, Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord and high school journalist Aarushi Dedhiya speak about Tuesday's historic debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris — what went right, what went wrong and whether any of it will make a difference to voters. Dedhiya also speaks about her experience covering the debate, where she got access to the spin room.

PennLive's Joyce Davis, along with Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord, speak with Berwood Yost, director of the Center for Opinion Research and the director of the Floyd Institute for Public Policy at Franklin & Marshall College, about the college's recent poll on the 2024 elections.

PennLive's Joyce Davis and Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord are joined by Mark Singel, former Lt. Gov. of Pennsylvania in an interview with Deborah Hinchey, of All Voting is Local. The group discusses Deborah's organization’s work to encourage voter confidence in mail-in voting and in election security.

PennLive's Joyce Davis, along with Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord and Pennsylvania Capital-Star reporter John Cole speak with Admiral Joe Sestak about the latest in the Democratic National Convention and Democratic concerns over Project 2025.

PennLive's Joyce Davis and Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord speak with Brian Phillips of the Texas Public Policy Foundation about what Pennsylvania voters should know about Project 2025.

PennLive's Joyce Davis and Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord interview former U.S. Rep. Claudine Schneider, part of Former Republican Members of Congress for Harris, to discuss Vice President Kamala Harris' decision to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 campaign. Schneider as a Republican from Rhode Island in Congress from 1981 to 1991. Editor's note: Due to storms, Joyce Davis lost connection toward the end of the episode.

PennLive's Joyce Davis and Republican analyst Jeffrey Lord meet with Will Cooper, author of "How America Works ... And Why It Doesn't" about his book, why he wrote it, and what he sees as the best way to right the U.S. political system.

PennLive’s Joyce Davis and Pennsylvania Capital-Star’s John Cole speaks with Pa. House Speaker Joanna McClinton about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden stepping down from the 2024 race, Kamala Harris’s rapid rise to become the apparent Democratic nominee for president, and the chances that Pennsylvania could get its first Black governor.

PennLive’s Joyce Davis speaks with summer interns with the World Affairs Council about the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, how it could have changed Trump personally, and their thoughts on President Joe Biden remaining in the 2024 race.

PennLive's Joyce Davis and John Cole of the Pennsylvania Capital-Star are joined by Nathan Benefield, senior vice president at the Commonwealth Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank in the state to discuss Benefield's perspective on the 2024 election.