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.
Nov 21, 2024•35 min
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.
Nov 14, 2024•32 min
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.
Nov 07, 2024•35 min
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.
Oct 31, 2024•36 min
PennLive's Joyce Davis speaks with representatives of the Council on Foreign Relations about the impact of international events in the 2024 elections.
Oct 24, 2024•30 min
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...
Oct 17, 2024•36 min
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.
Oct 10, 2024•30 min
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.
Oct 03, 2024•34 min
PennLive's Joyce Davis speaks with Marian Schneider of ACLU Pennsylvania about mail-in voting in the Commonwealth leading up to the 2024 election.
Sep 26, 2024•26 min
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.
Sep 19, 2024•28 min
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.
Sep 12, 2024•29 min
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.
Sep 05, 2024•34 min
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.
Aug 29, 2024•31 min
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.
Aug 22, 2024•41 min
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.
Aug 15, 2024•28 min
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.
Aug 08, 2024•35 min
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.
Aug 01, 2024•32 min
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.
Jul 24, 2024•28 min
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.
Jul 18, 2024•28 min
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.
Jul 11, 2024•35 min
PennLive’s Joyce Davis and Republican analyst Jeffrey Lord are joined by J.J. Abbott, executive director of Commonwealth Communications, Pennsylvania's progressive communications and digital hub. They talk about the recent slate of Supreme Court decisions, as well as President Joe Biden’s performance in his first debate against former President Donald Trump.
Jul 04, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 22
PennLive’s Joyce Davis, Republican analyst Jeffrey Lord and Democrat analyst Rogette Harris preview the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
Jun 27, 2024•30 min
PennLive’s Joyce Davis, Republican analyst Jeffrey Lord and Democrat analyst Rogette Harris are joined by Pa. House Rep. Jordan Harris, who represents Philadelphia County in the 186th District and is the Democratic Appropriations chairman. Our panel asks Harris about what he sees as the top issues impacting voters in the 2024 elections – locally and nationally.
Jun 20, 2024•39 min•Season 2Ep. 20
PennLive’s Joyce Davis, Republican analyst Jeffrey Lord and Democrat analyst Rogette Harris are joined by Pat Dennis, president of American Bridge 21st Century, to discuss strategy for winning voters in Pennsylvania. American Bridge 21st Century is one of President Joe Biden’s preferred SuperPACs during his re-election campaign.
Jun 13, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 19
PennLive’s Joyce Davis is joined by John Cole of the Pennsylvania Capital-Star and Democrat pundit Rogette Harris to discuss the fallout of former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 charges on the campaign. They also discuss Trump opening his first Pennsylvania office of the 2024 campaign in Philadelphia, Hunter Biden heads to trial.
Jun 06, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 18
PennLive’s Joyce Davis is joined by Democrat pundit Rogette Harris and Republican pundit Jeffrey Lord to discuss the current state of the economy, the progress of former President Donald Trump’s trial as the jury gets the case, the age discussion surrounding the election and more.
May 29, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Battleground PA host Joyce Davis is joined by Jeffrey Lord and John Cole to discuss ongoing issues in the Middle East and what effect that could have on the upcoming election in Pa. Also, where does the union vote currently fall in the Keystone State?
May 23, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 16
PennLive's Joyce Davis, Democrat Rogette Harris and Republican Jeffrey Lord are joined by Sam Pimental, host of the Next Gen PA podcast. The trio talk with Sam, a senior at Cumberland Valley High School, about the generational divide in politics.
May 16, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 15
PennLive's Joyce Davis is joined by Democrat Rogette Harris and Republican Jeffrey Lord as they talk about former President Donald Trump's trial, the war in Gaza affecting domestic issues with demonstrations continuing, the Pennsylvania Auditor General's race and more.
May 09, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 14
PennLive's Joyce Davis is joined by Jeffrey Lord and guest John Cole to discuss the latest on the upcoming elections.
Apr 11, 2024•32 min