Staff Reports
It appears that Pennsylvania has just handed Donald Trump a glorious victory, with the man grabbing 51.2% of the votes to Kamala Harris’s mere 47.8%. With 91% of precincts reporting, the numbers are inarguable. This win has confirmed Trump’s reign, awarding him the coveted 270 Electoral College votes, and solidifying his return as the 47th president of the United States. Keystone State? More like Trump State now!
In this race, both campaigns threw everything but the kitchen sink into Pennsylvania, each side strategically deploying time and resources as if it were the last slice of pizza at a family gathering. The polling stats were a wild ride, with RealClearPolitics showcasing a fluctuating final average of Trump at a razor-thin +0.4. The former president appeared to be cruising ahead—at least until Joe Biden decided to pack his bags in July. Post-Biden, the race resembled a tennis match with polls swinging back and forth like a pendulum, with both candidates claiming victory at various stages.
A closer examination of the polling shows Trump consistently holding ground. Various outlets such as AtlasIntel, The Hill/Emerson, and Trafalgar Group all landed with Trump at +1, while Harris managed to hold a slight edge in a few polls. And there were those counter-intuitive results from the Washington Post showing Harris ahead by four. Go figure! Perhaps the Post was polling from a parallel universe where facts don’t matter.
Let’s not forgot—without Joe Biden’s familiar Pennsylvania roots in the game, Harris had a more uphill battle on her hands. Senator John Fetterman had already honed in on this reality earlier, remarking on the astonishing “Trump stuff” saturation in predominantly red areas. Any ordinary person could see that Trump was pulling robust support. Fetterman himself even seemed a tad apprehensive about the enthusiasm surrounding Trump.
BREAKING: Trump Wins Pennsylvaniahttps://t.co/CXGLJZ14Vv
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Now that the dust has settled with Trump taking Pennsylvania, expect the left to frenzy over Kamala’s choice of running mate. Many will likely point fingers at her selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as a classic blunder that cost her the state. Apparently, there’s chatter that she had doubts about Gov. Josh Shapiro’s ambitions, which some insiders believe was her excuse to steer clear of someone who could also please the party’s radical wing. The irony isn’t lost that the selection might just be the ticket that derailed her campaign in a state where such choices were crucial.
As the final campaign days unfolded, it became glaringly clear Kamala was running scared. Distancing herself from the Biden administration, Senator Bob Casey made waves by aligning himself with some of Trump’s policies in a recent ad. He found a way to represent bipartisan cooperation, with a Republican spouse notably praising Casey for his “fracking-friendly” stance and his agreement with Trump on trade approaches. It seems the very principles that were once critically viewed by Democrats are now being expertly leveraged to try and salvage their own relevance.
With Trump’s decisive win, the consequences of miscalculating the pulse of Pennsylvania will echo through future Democratic strategies. Whether they’ll learn from their mistakes or simply double down on the self-destructive ideologies that drove this election misconduct remains to be seen, but one thing is evident: Trump just turned Pennsylvania from blue to red on the map, and that’s a color that draws a lot of attention.
