Post-election jitters and ambitions set in as Pittsburgh region, state and country count votes

Nina Merckel claps during state Sen. Devlin Robinson’s victory speech on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, at the Hickory Heights Golf Club in Bridgeville. Merckel, Devlin’s cousin, thinks things are looking positive moving forward. (Photo by Anastasia Busby/PublicSource) The voting, and most of the counting, went smoothly in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. The waiting may have just begun. “PublicSource is an independent nonprofit newsroom serving the Pittsburgh region. Sign up for our free newsletters.” by Rich Lord and Charlie Wolfson, PublicSource November 6, 2024 After months in the crosshairs of presidential campaigns, U.S. Senate candidates and surprisingly well-funded state-office contestants, partisans and swing voters brought the General Election cacophony to a crescendo Tuesday — and greeted Wednesday with the realization that it could be some time before the fever of the 2024 election lifts. In Pennsylvania, viewed as perhaps the crucial swing state in the contest for 270 Electoral College votes, more than 6 million ballots were cast. By midnight, the Associated Press had not called the state, or the nation, for either Republican Donald Trump, a former president, or Democrat Kamala Harris, the current vice president. Near midnight, the Associated Press had 230 Electoral College votes in Trump’s column, and...