{"id":2364918,"date":"2024-11-06T03:44:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T08:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-takes-battleground-pennsylvania\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T03:45:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T08:45:35","slug":"trump-takes-battleground-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-takes-battleground-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Takes Battleground Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-takes-battleground-pennsylvania%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2364918&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On\u2064 election night for the 2024 presidential election, Pennsylvania, \u2063known\u200d as the Keystone State, played a crucial \u200brole as a battleground, with its 19 electoral votes being essential for a path\u2063 to the White House. Former President Donald Trump \u2064secured a significant lead\u200c with approximately 3,399,081 votes, surpassing his 2020 performance of 3,377,674 votes. \u2062In \u200ccontrast, Vice President Kamala Harris received around 3,224,282 votes, which is less than Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 count of \u200b3,458,229 votes. This shift indicates that Trump improved his\u2063 standings while\u200c Harris struggled compared to her predecessor. The \u200datmosphere for Harris became increasingly dire as Trump continued to win various states. Instead of addressing her supporters on election night, she chose to leave the venue, promising \u200bto speak the following day. \u2064The Pennsylvania Department of State had previously advised\u200b voters to expect delayed results, as overseas ballots\u200d could still impact the\u200d outcome until their deadline on November 12.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pennsylvania, the Keystone State, lived up to its nickname on election night as the final piece needed to lock everything together in the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>With 19 electoral votes, the path to the White House most likely needed to include a win in Pennsylvania, and with nearly all of the votes counted, former President Donald Trump has an insurmountable lead in the state.<\/p>\n<p>At publishing time, Trump had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionreturns.pa.gov\/general\/summaryresults?ElectionID=105&amp;ElectionType=G&amp;IsActive=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3,399,081 votes<\/a>. That is more than Trump received in 2020, when he racked up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2020-election\/results\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3,377,674 votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Vice President Kamala Harris had received 3,224,282 votes, compared to Joe Biden&rsquo;s 3,458,229 votes in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Trump did better than he did in 2020, and Harris performed worse than Biden did in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Before all the votes were counted in Pennsylvania, things started looking bleak for Harris as Trump was declared the winner in state after state, racking up electoral votes. With a room full of people waiting to hear from her Tuesday night, Harris did what she does best: she avoided them, took her ball, and went home. The crowd was told she would not speak on election night but that Harris would speak on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks the Pennsylvania Department of State has been warning voters not to expect results on election night and to remember the results could change and even flip the winner. Overseas voters have until Nov. 12 to return their ballots and be counted. This year, 37,<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">642 overseas voters requested ballots<\/a> to vote in Pennsylvania according to Department of State data. There are not enough overseas votes to change the result. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As already mentioned, Harris had a weaker showing than Biden did in 2020 in Pennsylvania. In Monroe County, Biden received 53 percent of the votes in 2020. But Trump turned Monroe red, and Harris lost, receiving 49 percent of Monroe&rsquo;s votes.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern was repeated in other counties like Erie, Centre, and Northampton, leaving the state more Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Harris spent a lot of time and money campaigning in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and although she won in these counties, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/salena-zito-trump-was-always-the-result-of-the-conservative-populist-coalition-not-the-cause\/\" title=\"Salena Zito: Trump Was Always the Result of the Conservative Populist Coalition, Not the Cause\">earned fewer votes<\/a> than Biden did in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-gets-mixed-results-from-presidential-announcement-at-mar-a-lago\/\" title=\"Trump Gets Mixed Results From Presidential Announcement At Mar-A-Lago\">election night speech<\/a>, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Act 88, passed by the legislature, mandated that counties count votes continuously through the night until they&rsquo;ve completed the task.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I urge everyone to be patient, to avoid spreading or repeating any mis- or disinformation, and to rely on trusted sources of election information, like the Department of State&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-audits-in-pennsylvania-reveal-that-donald-trump-won-the-election\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did Audits In Pennsylvania Reveal That Donald Trump Won The Election?\">election returns website<\/a>,&rdquo; Shapiro <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovernorShapiro\/status\/1853974635353645313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;Every legal, eligible vote will be counted and counted accurately, and the will of the people here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will be respected.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Al Schmidt spoke alongside Shapiro, and Schmidt said the state had around 45,000 poll workers across its 67 counties.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m pleased to report that Pennsylvania has once again held a free, fair, safe, and secure Election Day,&rdquo; Schmidt said moments after most of the polls closed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lara-logan-challenges-media-to-ask-certain-questions-about-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Lara Logan Challenges Media To Ask Certain Questions About Afghanistan\">award-winning investigative journalist<\/a> with decades of media experience.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania proved crucial in the 2024 election, with Trump leading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":2364920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/TRUMP-3-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[32431,9947,5836,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2364918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-2024-election","tag-battleground","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/TRUMP-3-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364923,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364918\/revisions\/2364923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}