2019 Election Day

Former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden points at the stage to acknowledge Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald at the results party of the 2019 Allegheny County executive election on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at the JATC Local Union in the South Side. (Christian Snyder/Post-Gazette)
Campaign workers for Allegheny County Stephen A. Zappala Jr.’s re-election: left to right, a woman who chose not to be identified, Cameron Bilger, deputy campaign manager for Zappala, and Stephen J. Zappala, campaign manager and son of Stephen A. Zappala Jr., track live election results election night Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at Cupka’s Cafe II in South Side Flats. Mr. Zappala was being challenged by independent Lisa Middleman, a longtime public defender. (Michael M. Santiago/Post-Gazette)
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, right, waits with campaign staffers for results of the 2019 Allegheny County executive election on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at the JATC Local Union in the South Side. (Christian Snyder/Post-Gazette)
Matt Drozd, campaigning for Allegheny County Executive, waves his U.S. Flag on an island next to the southbound traffic of Route 8 with his campaign signs, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, in Etna. He faces off with the incumbent county Executive Rich Fitzgerald in the election. (Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette)
Former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden takes a selfie at the results party of the 2019 Allegheny County executive election on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at the JATC Local Union in the South Side. (Christian Snyder/Post-Gazette)
Democrat Chelsa Wagner, left, watches the polls with husband Khari Mosley, center, and friend Jamie Younger of the North Side, right, during her election watch party, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at Young Brothers Bar on the North Side. Wagner won another term as Allegheny County controller over Republican Brooke Nadonley. (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)
Former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden, center, right, and Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Forest Hills, right, listen while Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald addresses supporters at the results party of the 2019 Allegheny County executive election on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at the JATC Local Union in the South Side. (Christian Snyder/Post-Gazette)
Mary Zappala, left, and her husband Stephen A. Zappala Jr., Allegheny County district attorney, right, smile as they are welcomed to cheers as they arrive to his Election Day party, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at Cupka’s Cafe II in South Side Flats. Mr. Zappala is being challenged by independent Lisa Middleman, a longtime public defender. (Michael M. Santiago/Post-Gazette)
State Rep. Summer Lee, left, leads supporters in cheering on Lisa Middleman, an independent candidate for Allegheny County District Attorney, shortly after learning Middleman had lost her bid for the position during an election night gathering at Savoy restaurant in Pittsburgh’s Strip District on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)
Stephen A. Zappala Jr., Allegheny County district attorney, center, laughs while giving a victory speech at his Election Day party, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at Cupka’s Cafe II in South Side Flats. Mr. Zappala defeated independent Lisa Middleman, a longtime public defender. (Michael M. Santiago/Post-Gazette)