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Donald Trump suffers huge vote against him in Pennsylvania primary
Donald Trump suffered a blow in the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of Republicans refused to vote for him despite being the presumptive GOP nominee.
The former president won the primary race in the key swing state with 83.5 percent of the vote, amounting to more than 786,000 votes.
However, Nikki Haley, who ended her campaign for the White House after Super Tuesday in March, still received 16.5 percent of the vote, equating to more than 155,000 ballots.
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The Context
Trump has dominated the Republican primary, and won enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination in March after victories in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state.
However, there have been signs that Trump is still struggling to garner support from more moderate and independent voters who could be key in the general election against President Joe Biden, especially in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
What We Know
Trump continued his dominance in the GOP primary with a resounding victory in Pennsylvania, one of the states which could ultimately decide who wins the 2024 election.
While Trump still won more than 83 percent of the vote, Haley, seen as a more moderate Republican candidate who was also to sweep up the so-called “Never Trump” brigade, appears to still be causing problems for the former president’s campaign despite no longer officially being in the race.
Haley, who was Trump’s last remaining serious challenger in the GOP primary, had previously received more than 2 million votes on Super Tuesday, including winning the strong blue state of Vermont.
Haley also received more than 26 percent and 18 percent of the GOP primary vote in the key swing states of Michigan and Arizona respectively, amounting to hundreds of thousands of votes.
Several polls have indicated that many Haley supporters will not go on to vote for Trump in the 2024 election.
Trump lost Pennsylvania to Biden in the 2020 election by just over one percent (80,555 votes).
Trump’s office has been contacted for comment via email.
Views
Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s former White House communications director, said: “Nikki Haley dropped out of the race over a month ago, yet she is polling nicely in PA.
“Trump has no shot to win the presidency. Write it down and study it. And if you are with him: CRY.”
J.J. Abbott, who previously worked in former Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s office, said: “Nikki Haley did not campaign in Pennsylvania. She dropped out in early March.
“The entire PA GOP establishment including Dave McCormick endorsed Trump. Haley is on track to get nearly 150,000 votes.”
What’s Next
The Indiana GOP primary will be held on May 7.
The Republican National Convention, where Trump will be confirmed as the 2024 nominee, will take place in Milwaukee in July.
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Authorities say Barkley and his family were inside the house at the time of the home invasion. Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty Images for OBB Media
Saquon Barkley and his family are unharmed after at least one burglar entered the Philadelphia Eagles star’s home with them inside early Saturday morning, according to the Tredyffrin Township Police Department.
Police responded to a report of a burglary in progress at the Tredyffrin Township, Pa., residence around 5:10 a.m., authorities said, but the suspects had fled the scene by the time police arrived. The police have not announced any arrests in the case but have released a photo of a white SUV that may have been involved in the incident.
It was not immediately clear how many people entered the home, but Tredyffrin Township Police Capt. Tyler Moyer told WCAU-TV in Philadelphia that Barkley and his family were inside at the time of the incident.
“We know there’s more than one (suspect), but we’re still trying to determine how many were involved,” Moyer told WCAU-TV. “… All of the occupants in the home were physically OK, obviously a little unsettled as anybody would be, but nobody was harmed.”
The Chester County (Pa.) The District Attorney’s Office said in a statement that county detectives are assisting Tredyffrin Township police with the investigation, which is ongoing. There have been no other reports of similar activity in the area, according to authorities.
“We are incredibly grateful that the Barkley family was not injured during this incident,” the district attorney’s office said in the statement posted to Facebook. “We are asking the public to help us identify those responsible by checking any home security cameras for suspicious activity in the area around 5:00 a.m. If you saw anything unusual or have video that may assist investigators, please contact the Tredyffrin Township Police Department immediately.”
Multiple prominent professional athletes have been victims of home invasions in recent years. Federal prosecutors charged a group of Chilean men last year in connection to break-ins at the homes of Kansas City Chiefs teammates Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis Jr.
Moyer told WCAU-TV that his department would reach out to federal authorities to look into potential connections to other burglaries involving professional athletes.
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A chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary’s new Ambler campus in Montgomery County has earned an international architecture award for blending centuries of Catholic tradition with contemporary design.
Immaculate Conception Chapel, designed by Voith & Mactavish Architects LLP, incorporates historic elements salvaged from the seminary’s former Lower Merion campus, including carved pews, statues and stained-glass windows. The adapted features preserve the legacy of the oldest Catholic institution of higher learning in Pennsylvania and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
The chapel was one of 12 winners selected from 75 submissions worldwide in the 2026 Faith & Form International Awards for Religious Architecture & Art, presented by Philadelphia-based Partners for Sacred Places.
“It’s one of these projects that totally balances the contemporary needs of the client with this commitment to … liturgical tradition, institutional memory and preservation,” said
Kevin Block, the nonprofit’s director of special initiatives.
“So that combination … balancing the old and the new, was, in the jury’s opinion, really award worthy.”
Chapel design holds ‘universal appeal’
John Cluver, senior partner and director of historic preservation at Voith & Mactavish, said he worked closely with the seminary to understand the physical and spiritual needs of the people who would be in the building every day.
Incorporating historic elements at the old seminary was key for the institution, Cluver said.
“They were very interested in having this new chapel relate back to these other chapels and to continue this sense of tradition and this historic continuity with their previous campus,” he said. “So the basic form, configuration, individual elements all were based on elements from these two chapels that we could integrate into a single one.”
Cluver said the award from Partners for Sacred Places is recognition of achieving a “universal appeal” beyond the religious context.
“There’s something that resonated with people who had no connection whatsoever with this community, but they still felt that it really spoke to them as well, so it was very rewarding in that regard,” he said.
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