{"id":35579,"date":"2024-07-24T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=35579"},"modified":"2024-07-24T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:24:26","slug":"president-joe-biden-and-his-years-of-service-to-the-people-of-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2024\/07\/24\/president-joe-biden-and-his-years-of-service-to-the-people-of-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"President Joe Biden and his years of service to the people of Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Joe Biden speaks with construction workers as he arrives to depart on Air Force One from Pittsburgh International Airport, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden speaks with construction workers as he arrives to depart on Air Force One from Pittsburgh International Airport, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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US President Joe Biden buys food at a Sheetz gas station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 2024. Biden is urging a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, citing “unfair competition” while seeking to win blue-collar votes in November’s election. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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US President Joe Biden greets construction workers at a modernization project at Pittsburgh International Airport in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 2024. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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US President Joe Biden speaks with a construction worker at a modernization project at Pittsburgh International Airport in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 2024. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden greets people as he walks along the Labor Day parade route in Pittsburgh, September 7, 2015. (Larry Roberts\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden makes faces at a young child as he greets greets people while he walks along the Labor Day parade route in Pittsburgh, September 7, 2015. (Larry Roberts\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Former Vice President Joe Biden jogs to catch up with the parade group at the 37th annual Labor Day parade Monday, Sept 3, 2018 in Downtown Pittsburgh. (Lake Fong\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Former Vice President Joe Biden greets supporters at the 37th annual Labor Day parade Monday, Sept 3, 2018 in Downtown Pittsburgh. (Lake Fong\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Attendees watch from their vehicles as presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks after accepting the nomination during a drive-in watch party for the Democratic National Convention at the Carrie Blast Furnaces, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020 in Rankin. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Calvin Wilson, brother-in-law of LeRoy Homer, Jr., who was a co-pilot of hijacked Flight 93, speaks to Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden after he placed a wreath at the panel on The Wall of Names dedicated to Mr. Homer at the Flight 93 National Memorial, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in Stoystown. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a drive-in rally outside of Heinz Field on the North Shore, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden holds hands with his family after speaking during a drive-in rally outside of Heinz Field on the North Shore, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigns in Homewood at the Lexington Technology Park on Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. Steve Mellon\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden walks along the Wall of Names to the boulder that marks the impact site of the plane while visiting the Flight 93 National Memorial to honor the victims of Flight 93, Saturday, September 11, 2021, in Shanksville. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden talks with family members of passengers and crew of Flight 93 near the boulder that marks the impact site of the plane while visiting the Flight 93 National Memorial to honor the victims of Flight 93, Saturday, September 11, 2021, in Shanksville. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), left, and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), talk during a news conference in Philadelphia, May 14, 1990. they both suggested the rest of the nation follow Philadelphia’s lead in allowing state drug cases to be tried in federal courts. (AP Photo\/Chris Gardner)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential hopefuls, left to right, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., during a Democratic debate at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007. (AP Photo\/Matt Rourke)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and his wife Jill laugh as they are introduced at the Pennsylvania delegation breakfast Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008 on the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Biden is the running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. (AP Photo\/Ted S. Warren)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., greets Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh, Pa., Friday, Aug. 29, 2008.(AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and his wife, Jill Biden, wave as they arrive at a rally at Quay Park at Irving Square in Beaver, Pa., Friday, Aug. 29, 2008.(AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., campaigns at the Ironworkers Local Union 401 in Philadelphia Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo\/Mark Stehle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden, right, walks with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, left, and Rep Tim Holden, D-Pa. to visit a bridge over the Conodoguinet Creek in Carlisle, Pa., Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visits with a fan in the stands after he was enshrined into Little League’s Hall of Excellence before the Little League World Series championship baseball game between Taoyuan, Taiwain, and Chula Vista, Calif., Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, in South Williamsport, Pa. Chula Vista won 6-3. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden, second from left, sits in the stands at Lamade Stadium to watch Chula Vista, Calif. play Taoyuan, Taiwan in the Little League World Series Championship baseball game in South Williamsport, Pa., Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. California won 6-3. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with union supporters after a speaking before the Labor Day parade Monday Sept. 7, 2009 in Pittsburgh.(AP Photo\/Don Wright)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden meets with firefighters during a Labor Day barbecue at a fire station in Chester, Pa., Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. (AP Photo\/Matt Rourke)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden, left, eats his ice-cream cone as he talks with Bernie Buranosky during a stop at Klavon’s Authentic 1920’s ice cream parlor between fund raising events in Pittsburgh, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. (AP Photo\/Keith Srakocic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Former first lady Laura Bush, from left, former President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton, Dr. Jill Biden and Vice President Joe Biden view the Wall of Names, which displays the names of passengers and crew who died on United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, at the dedication of phase 1 of the permanent Flight 93 National Memorial near the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. Saturday Sept. 10, 2011. (AP Photo\/Amy Sancetta)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the University of Pittsburgh, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo\/Keith Srakocic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden greets people as he walks in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Pittsburgh, Pa., Saturday, March 17, 2012. (AP Photo\/John Heller)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, bottom left, greets people as he walks in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Pittsburgh, Pa., Saturday, March 17, 2012. (AP Photo\/John Heller)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden, in white short sleeve shirt, greets people in the crowd lining the streets as he walks in the annual Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo\/Keith Srakocic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden, center, waves to the crowd as he walks down Grant Street in Pittsburgh in their annual Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (AP Photo\/Keith Srakocic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nancy Givens, left, gets her photo taken with Vice President Joe Biden by Jan Cummings during the vice president’s visit with patrons at Pamela’s restaurant, Tuesday, April 5, 2016 in Pittsburgh. Biden stopped on his way to Pittsburgh for an event raising awareness about sexual assault. (AP Photo\/Keith Srakocic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden tosses his jacket off stage as he begins to speak during a rally at the Teamster Local 249 Hall in Pittsburgh Monday, April 29, 2019. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden takes the stage during a rally at the Teamster Local 249 Hall in Pittsburgh Monday, April 29, 2019. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden arrives to speak at campaign event at Mill 19 in Pittsburgh, Pa., Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks with United Steelworkers Union President Thomas Conway, right, aboard his train as it travels to Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Biden is on a train tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania today. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill Biden, left, fist bumps a supporter before boarding his train at Amtrak’s Pittsburgh Train Station, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Pittsburgh. Biden is on a train tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania today. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stands with Lady Gaga at Schenley Plaza, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stands with Lady Gaga at Schenley Plaza, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden talkss with Lady Gaga, left, following a drive-In rally at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden removes his face mask as he arrives to speak on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden visits the site where the Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Pittsburgh’s East End. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden talks first responders as he visits the site where the Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Pittsburgh’s East End. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden visits Carnegie Mellon University at Mill 19 in Pittsburgh, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden speaks at Carnegie Mellon University at Mill 19 in Pittsburgh, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden, left, speaks with Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., at a United Steel Workers of America Labor Day event in West Mifflin, Pa., just outside Pittsburgh, Monday Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo\/Rebecca Droke)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FILE – President Joe Biden visits the site where the Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed Jan. 28, 2022, in Pittsburgh’s East End. Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, second from right, and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, right, look on. The Fern Hollow Bridge became a symbol of the country’s troubled infrastructure,\u00a0collapsing into a ravine\u00a0earlier this year just before President Joe Biden visited the city.\u00a0Biden hopes to turn the bridge into a symbol of success for his administration when he returns to Pittsburgh on Thursday, Oct. 20, less than three weeks before\u00a0the midterm elections.\u00a0(AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden speaks about his infrastructure agenda at Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden speaks with Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, after stepping off Air Force One, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, at the 171st Air Refueling Wing at Pittsburgh International Airport in Coraopolis, Pa. Biden is visiting Pittsburgh to promote his infrastructure agenda. Standing with Biden are Fetterman’s wife Gisele Barreto Fetterman, from left, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden speaks about his infrastructure agenda at Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, Oct. 20, 2022. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden walks into a Sheetz after stopping enroute to Pittsburgh International Airport, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden is greeted after walking into a Sheetz after stopping enroute to Pittsburgh International Airport, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon))<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden’s limosine is seen outside Sheetz, where the President stopped enroute to Pittsburgh International Airport, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden speaks with construction workers as he arrives to depart on Air Force One from Pittsburgh International Airport, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Joe Biden meets with law enforcement before boarding and departing on Air Force One from Pittsburgh International Airport, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden, center, and his wife Jill Biden, right, greet family members of LeRoy Homer, Jr., who was a co-pilot of hijacked Flight 93, after laying a wreath by the panel dedicated to him on The Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in Stoystown. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lady Gaga takes the stage to perform during a drive-in campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the parking lot outside of Heinz Field on the North Shore, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. (Alexandra Wimley\/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Presidential candidate Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden are seen in the back of the campaign Amtrak train as it makes its way through Pittsburgh on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, seen from the 28th Street Bridge in Polish Hill. (Steph Chambers\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vice President Joe Biden talks with an image projected on a screen of Dan Rooney at “Slainte! Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Daniel M. Rooney” , in the Ballroom at the Duquesne Union Friday March 16, 2018 in Pittsburgh. Biden talked about Dan Rooney\u2019s impact on Pittsburgh, Ireland, the NFL and the effects on himself. (Darrell Sapp\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Rock Kernick, of Hampton, chair of the Hampton Township Democratic Committee, talks to people from behind cardboard cutouts of presidential and vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris outside of the satellite election office and mail-in ballot drop-off location at the North Park Ice Rink in McCandless, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":35627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,4,15,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[55],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/AP22293664849832-scaled-e1721845404647.jpg?fit=861%2C419&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35655,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35579\/revisions\/35655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35579"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}