Trump wins Pennsylvania, clinching 2024 presidential-election victory

ALLENTOWN and PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Republican Donald Trump has won Pennsylvania, nan astir coveted plaything authorities of nan 2024 election, clinching his return to nan White House.

Trump leads his Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris successful nan captious Keystone State 51% to 48%, pinch 94% of votes counted, nan Associated Press reports.

Donald Trump speaks astatine a run rally successful New York City successful October. AP

Pennsylvania gets 19 electoral votes, nan astir of each nan 7 plaything states.

The Keystone State provided a number of nan campaign’s astir memorable moments.

Trump worked nan fry machine astatine a McDonald’s successful nan state, hitting Harris for claiming she worked astatine a franchise erstwhile younger but not providing immoderate proof.

And nan image of nan ex-prez pinch a raised fist aft would-be assassin Thomas Crooks shot him astatine a Butler, Pa., rally is apt nan campaign’s apical image.

It is nan 2nd clip Trump has surgery nan bluish wall successful nan state, which has historically backed Democrats successful nan title for nan White House.

In 2016, nan Keystone State backed nan erstwhile president complete Hillary Clinton. The commonwealth past flipped to Scranton autochthonal Joe Biden successful 2020.

Trump and Biden’s respective victories successful Pennsylvania brought some men much than 270 electoral votes — and sent them to nan White House.

The erstwhile president cinched nan battleground authorities aft vowing to little nan historical levels of ostentation and ace down connected surging forbidden migration seen nether nan Biden-Harris administration.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astatine a run rally successful Philadelphia successful October. Michael Brochstein/ZUMA / SplashNews.com

Trump besides promised to unleash nan lipid and state manufacture and unit China and different countries to move manufacturing to nan US.

He besides campaigned connected ending wars successful Ukraine and Gaza that erupted nether nan Biden-Harris administration, promising to resoluteness nan spiraling conflicts by promoting bid done strength.