Thomas Richard Carper is an American politician and former military officer serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware,having held the seat since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,Carper served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993 and was the 71st governor of Delaware from 1993 to 2001.
The Rockefeller Republicans were members of the Republican Party (GOP) in the 1930s–1970s who held moderate-to-liberal views on domestic issues,similar to those of Nelson Rockefeller,Governor of New York (1959–1973) and Vice President of the United States (1974–1977). Rockefeller Republicans were most common in the Northeast and industrial Midwestern states,with their larger moderate-to-liberal constituencies,while they were rare in the South and West.
Paul Davis Ryan is an American former politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he was the vice presidential nominee in the 2012 election running alongside Mitt Romney,but lost to incumbent president Barack Obama and then-vice president Joe Biden.
The Delaware Valley is a metropolitan region on the East Coast of the United States that comprises and surrounds Philadelphia,the sixth most populous city in the nation as of 2020 and 68th largest city in the world. The toponym Delaware Valley is commonly used to refer to Greater Philadelphia or the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The Delaware Valley region includes portions of four U.S. states and four regions in the area along the central and lower Delaware River. The Delaware Valley has a total 2020 population of 6.245 million,making it the seventh largest metropolitan region in the United States and 35th largest metropolitan region in the world.
Willard Mitt Romney is an American politician,businessman,and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Utah since January 2019,succeeding Orrin Hatch. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election,losing to Barack Obama.
The Michigan Republican Party is the state affiliate of the national Republican Party in Michigan,sometimes referred to as MIGOP. Ronald Weiser was elected chairman in 2021.
Christopher Andrew Coons is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Delaware since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party,Coons served as the county executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010.
From the time of the Great Depression through the 1990s,the politics of West Virginia were largely dominated by the Democratic Party. In the 2000 presidential election,George W. Bush claimed a surprise victory over Al Gore,with 52% of the vote;he won West Virginia again in 2004,with 56% of the vote. West Virginia is now a heavily Republican state,with John McCain winning the state in 2008,Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.
Michael Andrew Smerconish is an American radio host and television presenter,political commentator,newspaper columnist,author,and lawyer. He broadcasts The Michael Smerconish Program weekdays at 9:00 a.m. ET on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel (124),and hosts the CNN and CNN International program Smerconish at 9:00 a.m. ET on Saturdays. He is a Sunday newspaper columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Smerconish has written seven books:six non-fiction works and one novel. He is also of counsel to the Philadelphia law firm of Kline &Specter.
Jon D. Fox was an American Republican politician. He served as a member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1985 to 1992 before being elected to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners (1992-1995). His final political role was as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania between 1995 and 1999.
Jan Ching-an Ting is a Professor of Law at Temple University in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Delaware in the 2006 U.S. Senate election,but two years later Ting left the Republican Party in a dispute over his endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Ryan Anthony Costello is an American politician,lobbyist and attorney who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2014 midterms. Costello previously served on the Chester County Board of Commissioners (2011–2015),which he chaired from 2013 to 2015. He announced his retirement from Congress in 2018 on MSNBC,stating that he would not seek reelection.
The Never Trump movement,also called the #nevertrump,Stop Trump,anti-Trump,or Dump Trump movement,began as an effort on the part of a group of Republicans and other prominent conservatives to prevent Republican front-runner Donald Trump from obtaining the Republican Party presidential nomination. After he was nominated,this shifted into an effort to prevent him from obtaining the presidency in the 2016 United States presidential election. Trump remained unsupported by 20 percent of Republican members of Congress in the general election. Following Trump's election in November 2016,some in the movement refocused their efforts on defeating Trump in 2020.
William Gregory Rothman is an American politician. A Republican,he has been a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 2015,elected from the 87th district,which covers parts of Cumberland County.
Ronna McDaniel is an American politician and political strategist serving as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) since 2017. A member of the Republican Party and the Romney family,she was chair of the Michigan Republican Party from 2015 to 2017.
Presidential primaries and caucuses of the Republican Party took place in many U.S. states,the District of Columbia,and five U.S. territories from February 3 to August 11,2020,to elect most of the 2,550 delegates to send to the Republican National Convention. Delegates to the national convention in other states were elected by the respective state party organizations. The delegates to the national convention voted on the first ballot to select Donald Trump as the Republican Party's presidential nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election,and selected Mike Pence as the vice-presidential nominee.
The 2024 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 5,2024 as part of the 2024 United States elections. 33 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be contested in regular elections,the winners of which will serve six-year terms in the U.S. Congress from January 3,2025,to January 3,2031. Senators are divided into three groups,or classes,whose terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every two years. Class 1 senators were last elected in 2018,and will be up for election again in 2024. Numerous other federal,state,and local elections,including the U.S. presidential election and elections to the House,will also be held on this date.
The 2020 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Pennsylvania voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote,pitting the Republican Party's nominee,President Donald Trump,and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee,former Vice President Joe Biden,and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes in the Electoral College.
The 2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Pennsylvania and lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. Democratic state attorney general Josh Shapiro easily defeated Republican state senator Doug Mastriano to succeed term-limited incumbent Democratic governor Tom Wolf.
