Election day in USA predicts an equal count to find out if the White House will be occupied by the Democrat Kamala Harris or the republican donald trump. Of the 50 states that are at stake this November 5th, there is one on which both candidates have their sights set: Pennsylvania. This has been one of the places where both the vice president and the former president have held the most rallies, aware that without that territory the chances of winning the elections are practically nil.
Among the seven key states that will decide these elections, Pennsylvania is the one that distributes the most electoral votes, with 19 of the 270 that a candidate needs to win. If there are no surprises, if one of the candidates wins Pennsylvania and other key states on which to rely, the result will be almost decided. In the case of the Democratic Party it could be places like Michigan and Wisconsin, while the Republican side could rely on Arizona and North Carolina.
Polling stations in Pennsylvania are expected to close at 8:00 p.m. local time (2:00 a.m. CET), although the results may not be known on this election day. According to The New York Timesin this state it takes longer to count the votes because mail-in votes do not begin to be processed until election day. In the last 2020 elections, in-person voting favored Trump and it was when the counting of mail-in votes began (which ended four days later) that the state turned around and Biden ended up winning by a minimum margin of 90,000 votes.
Pennsylvania has a pretty typical voting trend: white men voting Republican and women voting Democratic. The two big cities (Philadelphia and Pittsburgh) are historically Democratic, but the 2016 experience in which Hillary Clinton lost has caused Harris’ party to has turned to this territory during the electoral campaign.
10% of the population of this state is black and Latinos are also close to that percentage. In her recent rallies, the vice president has asked both African Americans and Latinos to “ask their family members to go vote,” as these are communities with high absenteeism. Harris is aware that she is having a hard time reaching African-American men in this state, which is why she has relied on the Obamas to campaign among a historically Democratic sector of the population, but to whom Trump is increasingly closing the gap.
Although in recent months the polls pointed to a small difference in favor of Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, in recent weeks that dynamic has changed in favor of Trump, who was slightly ahead one day before the election.