Traffic across central Pennsylvania for the presidential campaigns seemed pretty light this year -- until a few weeks ago. Now, each day brings new national attention to the region, including Lancaster County.
On Wednesday morning, FOX News Channel's "FOX & Friends" will broadcast live from the Brass Eagle Restaurant in Gap, as part of a series of stops in swing state diners. Co-host Lawrence Jones starts the Breakfast with Friends election series with the Lincoln Highway stop, from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Co-hosts Jones, Will Cain, Pete Hegseth, Rachel Campos-Duffy, Todd Piro and Carley Shimkus at diners in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin in the last week leading up to the general election, speaking with patrons on campaign issues.
Other stops include Romeo, Michigan, on Thursday; Watkinsville, Georgia, on Friday; Rome, Georgia on Monday; Emmaus in Lehigh County, Wakesha, Wisconsin, and Concord, North Carolina, on Tuesday; Maggie Valley, North Carolina, and Tyrone, Blair County, on Wednesday.
The broadcast comes the morning of a visit by Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for president, to the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg on Wednesday afternoon. (Harris was initially scheduled to visit York County earlier this month, but canceled to tour states in Hurricane Helene's aftermath.)
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, has made several stops at the Farm Show complex this year and one to York County, as well.
On Monday night, before visiting Allentown and Delaware County on Tuesday, Trump posted about what he called "Fake Ballots" in Lancaster County, but which was presumably a reference to the ongoing investigation by the district attorney's office into suspicious voter registration forms, some of which have been identified as fraudulent. Trump claimed Lancaster County was "caught with 2600 Fake Ballots and Forms, all written by the same person."
But in a press conference held Friday by the majority-Republican county commissioners (who make up the county elections board) and District Attorney Heather Adams, they revealed that problematic applications were among some 2,500 dropped off ahead of the Oct. 21 registration deadline, though they did not indicate how many applications were reviewed or how many were determined to be fraudulent. She said investigators “believed that the fraudulent voter registrations are connected to a large-scale canvassing operation for voter registrations." The group or groups were not identified.
You can watch the press conference here.
The voter registration investigation ended a week that started with a Trump town hall on Sunday at the Lancaster Convention Center and protest by Harris supporters in Penn Square. The event got national attention when a New York photographer was pushed by a police officer as tension increased at the end of the protest. And the same day, a Homeland Security aide to former Vice President Mike Pence spoke to Democratic volunteers headed out to knock on doors throughout the county.
Harris and Trump backers have been criss-crossing the county in the past week, as well. Elon Musk held a town hall in Lancaster on Saturday. Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Raphael Warnock stumped for Harris in Lititz on Thursday, the same day Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Phil headlined an event at Spooky Nook.
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