The next challenge was to overcome a 16-point lead held by the incumbent senator, Republican Pat Toomey. And as the days to the vote count down, the Republican must keep dancing around his feelings for his party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump. In interviews with Philadelphia’s local papers, Toomey tried to balance without a position on Trump, saying: “I hoped that Donald Trump would persuade me. You never catch up.”“We know it’s the right thing to do” to raise the minimum wage, McGinty said. She argued further that that she would build bipartisan consensus on a federal minimum wage increase.

Source: The Guardian October 15, 2016 13:00 UTC