Pennsylvania was thrown back into the limelight this week whena group of Republican state representatives claimed to have found"troubling discrepancies between the numbers of total votes counted and total number of voters who voted" in the state last month. "A comparison of official coun...
It's awinner-take-all systemin most states, meaning the candidate who comes out ahead gets all of the state's Electoral College votes. Maine andNebraskaare the only two states that allow their electoral votes to be split. How many Electoral College votes does each state have? The number o...
In 2020, Pennsylvania was one of the decisive states in President Joe Biden’s victory after a highly contentious election during the COVID-19 pandemic. Former President Donald Trump denied the loss, baselessly blamed fraud, and ultimately encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol while v...
2016, which accounted forroughly 7 percent of all votes cast. In the grand scheme of things, that’s not a lot of people, but these voters probablydidplay a role in helping President Trump get elected because around three-quarters of those voters swung toward him rather than Hillary Clinton...
In this scenario, Trump would flip Arizona, Georgia, andPennsylvania— states he won in 2016 but lost to Mr. Biden in 2020 — and hold North Carolina. He would lose the other battlegrounds to Harris but end up with more than the 270 electoral votes required to win the presidency. (Scroll...
(Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania) in which he was an underdog, and he was an underdog in the Electoral College overall. So 2016 was good from a calibration perspective but middling from an accuracy (calling races correctly) perspective. This year was sort of the opposite: terrific from an...
And while early in-person voting has ended in many states, there will be a huge push for final-hours early voting in at least three key states as the campaigns work to bank as many votes as possible before Election Day. Advertisement ...
“ It’ll have an effect, but a fairly small effect,” former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said of Trump’s recent 34 felony convictions in the New York hush money case. “I don’t think we can count on it. We’ve got to get out and win the election ...
Kamala Harris would have won if she had persuaded 229,766 people in the right proportions in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan to vote for her instead of Trump. That sounds like a big number, but it's less than 0.15% of the 155 million-plus people that cast votes in the election, an...
Pennsylvania with 19 electoral votes is the largest prize of the presidential battlegrounds, followed by Georgia and North Carolina with 16 each. Who are the electors? It varies by state, but often the electors are picked by state parties. Members of Congress cannot serve as electors...