How Pa. Democrats plan to ensure midterm election security [View all]

Pennsylvania Democrats are hoping to run up the score and win decisive victories in four key congressional races this fall in order to shore up the US House and prevent any election tampering by President Donald Trump or US House Republicans.

“ We’re gonna run up to score to such a level that [US House Speaker Mike Johnson] won’t have a choice,” Eugene DePasquale, Chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, told reporters at the party’s winter state committee meeting in Harrisburg on Saturday.

If congressional races are close following Election Day or disputed by Trump and the Republicans, Johnson has the ability to delay swearing in members, and over the past week, Johnson began echoing false statements about mail-in voting and ballots being counted following Election Day.

Last fall, Johnson waited 50 days to swear-in US House Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) after she won her special election in order to prevent her from signing onto a discharge petition forcing a vote to release the Epstein Files.


https://keystonenewsroom.com/2026/02/09/how-pa-democrats-plan-to-ensure-midterm-election-security/