Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) warned Democrats not to underestimate former President Donald Trump’s formidable following in Pennsylvania, a battleground state Vice President Kamala Harris wants to win in order to secure the election this fall.
The Economist’s forecast model suggests that the state—with its 19 electoral-college votes, the most of any swing state—is the tipping-point in 27% of the model’s updated simulations, meaning it decides the election more often than any other state.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said he thinks former President Trump has a “special” place among Pennsylvania voters and it only deepened after a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in the state in July.
Voters in Pennsylvania are not yet able to cast ballots, despite confusion over a state law concerning applications for mail ballots.
Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in Pennsylvania by 3 percentage points thanks to a major advantage with women voters, a USA TODAY poll found.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain deadlocked less than seven weeks before the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, according to new polls released on Thursday that also show a tight race in the key state of Pennsylvania.
According to the latest CBS News Poll, if the presidential election were held today, 59% of likely voters would vote for Vice President Kamala Harris compared to 41% for former President Donald Trump. "We are the future," said DaJaun Wortham, a student at Community College of Philadelphia. "Young people are the future."
Pennsylvania’s highest court will decide if counties have to accept provisional ballots cast on election day at polling places by voters whose mail-in ballots lacked secrecy envelopes or were rejected for other flaws.
Many states' plans are backed by federal money from the Inflation Reduction Act, the climate law passed by Congress in 2022. But former President Donald Trump, who has called climate change measures a “scam” and vowed to rescind “unspent” funds under the law,