GIBSONIA, Pa.—Walking back from an early-voting site at North Park Ice Rink, Charles Schrankel of Ross Township, Pennsylvania, said he dropped off a ballot on which he voted straight Republican.

“I voted [the] straight Republican ticket, and I don’t always vote straight party,” Shrankel told The Daily Signal outside the polling station in Wexford, Pennsylvania.

But Schrankel, a former Army Ranger, said he was motivated to vote for GOP Senate candidate David McCormick, also a former Army Ranger, as well as to vote for former President Donald Trump.

“I think Trump and McCormick are a great team, and I think Trump makes a good garbage driver,” he said, joking about Trump’s recent campaign photo op riding in a garbage truck.

McCormick is the Republican challenger to incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in the Senate race.

North Park Ice Rink was among several early-voting sites where residents of Allegheny County—the second-most-populous county in this key battleground state—could drop off absentee ballots this day.

Dropping off her own ballot at the Beaver County Courthouse, Ashton Jersey said she reached a different conclusion and voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in the race for president.

“I’m a dance teacher of small children, mostly girls. I want them to have options in the future,” Jersey told The Daily Signal.

She suggested that economic issues aren’t as paramount.

“I think fracking is a big issue for a lot of people,” Jersey said. “There is too much emphasis on the cost of groceries. People should look at this in moral terms. I don’t want a convicted felon leading the country.”

Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, hasn’t gone to a Republican presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972. Nearby Beaver County hasn’t gone to a Democratic presidential candidate since John Kerry in 2004.

Most Trump voters who agreed to speak Thursday to The Daily Signal talked about the........

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