Campaign trail traffic heavy ahead of Pennsylvania primary

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Presidential candidates are campaigning from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia in a last-ditch bid for votes in Pennsylvania’s first competitive Republican primary in decades.

Campaign events were scheduled today in the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas and Wilkes-Barre. Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton lead polls ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.

For Democrats, the last competitive race was in 2008, when Clinton beat Barack Obama by about 200,000 votes, or 9 percent.

The primary election also will decide contests for party nominees for U.S. Senate, 18 U.S. House seats, state attorney general and 228 state legislative seats.

A four-way Democratic U.S. Senate primary has come down to Katie McGinty and Joe Sestak for the nod to challenge Republican incumbent Pat Toomey in November. Three Democrats and two Republicans are running to succeed Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane.