He Former US President Donald TrumpRepublican candidate, and the Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United StatesDemocratic candidate, They marked the state of Pennsylvania in red. With 19 electoral votes, Pennsylvania is the largest of all swing states (Swing States) for its aforementioned large number of electoral votes in this fight between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris for the White House. Why is Pennsylvania the most important swing state? Below, we explain how many votes are at stake, what the Pennsylvania electorate looks like, and who has the edge between the two candidates.
Pennsylvania. 19 electoral votes. Undecided people, Arizona has 11 electoral votes, Georgia 16 electoral votesMichigan 15 votes, Nevada six, New Hampshire four, North Carolina 16, Wisconsin 10 and Pennsylvania 19. According to the latest polls, Kamala Harris received 257 electoral votes and Donald Trump 281. The White House would need 270.
The two candidates are tied in the overall polling average. Meanwhile, Harris has a 0.6-point lead in Pennsylvania, according to the FiveThirtyEight polling average. The Morning Consult poll has her ahead by three points, 49 percent to 46 percent. A CBS/YouGov poll from September shows Harris and Trump tiedboth at 50%.
As previously stated, Pennsylvania has the most electoral votes19 years old, than any other battlefield statusmentioned earlier. Pennsylvanians regularly choose the winners of presidential elections, having voted for 10 of the last 12 White House winners: the candidate who won Pennsylvania also won Michigan and Wisconsin. in the last eight elections.
Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016
Trump became the first Republican to win Pennsylvania since the 1980s. In the 2016 election, Biden, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, won in 2020 by 121,660 votes. With the norm of winner takes all (winner takes all), he won all 20 electoral votes he had in 2020, one more than in these 2024 elections.
What is the Pennsylvania electorate like?
Pennsylvania has a large proportion of white, working-class voterswith nearly 75% of the population identifying as non-Hispanic white, a demographic Trump generally does well with.
What do Pennsylvania voters want?
For him 82% of Pennsylvania votersTHE economy is the most important issue in these presidential elections, followed by inflation, with 78% of voters thinking it should be the second priority of the next president of the United States, according to the CBS/YouGov poll. These results coincide with the rest of the voters surveyed nationally.according to a recent Pew Research survey.
