Devi Lockwood

2 months ago | inquirer.com | Yvette Walker |Devi Lockwood

Hello, football fans, and welcome to the exciting weeks leading up to the Super Bowl! As we all get ready for the big game, many of us are busy prepping our game-day outfits, planning our food spreads, and carefully weighing invitations to multiple Super Bowl parties. But before we dive into the festivities, we (opinion editors at The Inquirer and the Kansas City Star) are preparing for a different kind of showdown: a battle of words and ideas.

Nov 20, 2024 | inquirer.com | Devi Lockwood

That sense of dread many Democratic voters felt the day after the election, when Donald Trump’s second term was confirmed, is not at all unfamiliar to Lucy Duncan. “That feeling you are experiencing right now, that feeling of the world being turned upside down? The feeling that you and loved ones are facing imminent threats, that the walls are closing in? Feel that,” said Lucy Duncan, 60, who lives in West Philadelphia. That feeling is part of a message Duncan hoped to send to Washington.

Nov 17, 2024 | lasvegassun.com | Devi Lockwood

On election night at 9 p.m., I left The Philadelphia Inquirer newsroom as results were beginning to spill in, and walked across Center City to the Cherry Street Tavern, where the Philadelphia Young Republicans club was hosting an election watch party. MAGA hats ranging from the subtle (denim and leather) to the in-your-face (red, black, and gold) dotted the heads of those in the crowd. There was a sense — not unlike the Trump rally I reported from in 2020 — of comfort.

Nov 13, 2024 | inquirer.com | Devi Lockwood

On election night at 9 p.m., I left The Inquirer newsroom as results were beginning to spill in, and walked across Center City to the Cherry Street Tavern, where the Philadelphia Young Republicans club was hosting an election watch party. MAGA hats ranging from the subtle (denim and leather) to the in-your-face (red, black, and gold) dotted the heads of those in the crowd. There was a sense — not unlike the Trump rally I reported from in 2020 — of comfort.

Nov 5, 2024 | inquirer.com | Devi Lockwood

Time has been moving slowly for Linwood Holland. Daylight saving time didn’t help; he bemoans the extra hour that he’ll now have to wait to know the results of the 2024 election. This morning, he and his wife were first and second in line at their polling place in Philadelphia’s 35th Ward. In a city where Republicans are outnumbered by a margin of 7-1, Holland — a 64-year-old GOP ward leader in this overwhelmingly Democratic city — is a rarity.