Donald Trump flips Pennsylvania
The state has 19 electoral votes — the largest of the battlegrounds.
Donald Trump has won Pennsylvania, the biggest of the battlegrounds.
Pennsylvania has the largest electoral vote haul of any swing state in the country, and both the former president and his rival, Kamala Harris, prioritized it during the campaign. The two candidates plunged more money into the state and visited it more often with their running mates than any other battleground.
This marks the second time Trump has won Pennsylvania after carrying it in 2016. Before that, the last Republican presidential candidate to succeed in the state was George H.W. Bush in 1988. Democrats hoped they had rebuilt the Blue Wall after Joe Biden won the state in 2020, but Pennsylvania’s embrace of Trump now shows how tenuous each party’s grip has been.
Trump leaned into his image as the candidate best equipped to handle the economy in Pennsylvania, where voters have been hit hard by inflation. He touted his tariffs and mass deportation plans, while attacking Harris over her shifting positions on fracking, a key political issue in the state because of its influential natural gas industry.
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