Former President Donald Trump will take Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes, according to a projection from Fox News.
The commonwealth helped catapult Trump to the White House in 2016. He narrowly lost it to Joe Biden in his unsuccessful 2020 reelection bid.
In 2024, both candidates made heavy plays for the Keystone State – each holding multiple rallies in Pennsylvania in the closing days of their campaigns. But Trump was unable/able to crack the so-called “blue wall” again to replicate his shocking win from eight years ago.
Harris had taken some flak from fellow Democrats by not tapping Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro – a popular figure among state Democrats – as her running mate.
Ultimately, her selection of Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential nominee did not appear to be a factor with Pennsylvanians.
Trump spent time in Pennsylvania early and often while facing Biden and later Harris after the president exited the race. Trump was grazed in the ear by the bullet of a would-be assassin at a rally he held in Butler in July in a shooting that killed one of his supporters.
On the eve of the election, Harris led in the state in the RealClearPolitics average by less than a point but the race had been considered a toss-up for the last few weeks of the race.
She spent Monday crisscrossing the state with stops in Scranton and Philadelphia. Trump, meanwhile, held a rally in Pittsburgh Monday night where he was joined by Megyn Kelly before he traveled to Michigan for his final 2024 rally.
