Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania, the biggest 2024 election swing state prize

Donald Trump has won the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a captious battleground state and 1 of the biggest prizes successful the contention for the White House.

The telephone by the Associated Press comes soon aft Trump captured the swing states of North Carolina and Georgia, crushing Kamala Harris' momentum and mounting himself up good to seizure the indispensable 270 votes to win.

Trump present indispensable seizure lone 1 much plaything authorities to clinch victory. 

After losing Pennsylvania to President Joe Biden successful 2020, Republicans poured important resources into the commonwealth successful an effort to repetition Trump's 2016 upset that helped him leap up of failed statesmanlike campaigner Hillary Clinton.

Pennsylvania has the fifth-largest fig of electoral votes successful the United States with 19 and is seen arsenic captious successful an Electoral College triumph for either winner. 

Harris performed worse than expected successful the commonwealth.

Her determination not to take Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro arsenic her moving mate whitethorn person wounded her successful her last effort, contempt disapproval from Democrats who thought it would assistance her triumph the state. 

Harris made her last propulsion successful Pennsylvania connected predetermination eve, holding 3 rallies successful the commonwealth and concluding her run successful Philadelphia with Oprah, Lady Gaga, and a big of celebrities. 

'This could beryllium 1 of the closest races successful history. Every azygous ballot matters,' Harris told the assemblage successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the authorities that could yet determine the election. 

Oprah issued a menace akin to 1 Trump instrumentality Elon Musk enactment retired from the other broadside of the aisle: that ideology is connected the brink if the different campaigner wins.

'If we don't amusement up tomorrow, it is wholly imaginable that we volition not person the accidental to ever formed a ballot again,' Winfrey said.

She added: 'All the anxiousness and the fearfulness you're feeling, you're feeling that due to the fact that you consciousness the danger.'

Republicans, besides aggressively pursued problematic voting issues successful polling places, filing ineligible challenges to support the voting honest.

The Republican National Committee filed ineligible challenges successful Cambria County aft voting machines were not moving properly. 

In different counties, Republicans engaged with section polling places to guarantee that Republican canvass watchers were allowed entree to the counting process.

There is besides a choky Senate contention betwixt Democrat Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick.

It was excessively adjacent to telephone arsenic of 1:30 americium connected November 6.  

Biden, primitively from Scranton, Pennsylvania, utilized his working-class roots to entreaty to the electorate adjacent though helium moved to Delaware as a young boy.

But erstwhile helium dropped retired of the reelection contention successful July, the Democrats' hopes of winning the authorities plummeted.