No Republican presidential candidate has won Philadelphia County since Herbert Hoover's ill-fated campaign in 1932, and Donald Trump was no exception.
Pennsylvania's largest city and several other blue forts have seen notable movement in the direction of big shots in the last week, according to postmortem statistics.
Of the top 10 counties where Trump beat his 2020 numbers the most, six had Democratic majorities or a Democratic majority.
Mr. Trump widened his lead the most in Monroe County in the Poconos, an area that is undergoing rapid suburbanization due to an influx of immigrants from the New York City suburbs.
Philadelphia fell to 6th place out of 67 counties. new york times data.
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Vice President Harris still won Philadelphia by a 59-point margin, but Trump widened that margin by 5 points, far more than other counties with similar margins given the exponential growth in population. There will be many voters. Trump's turnout in the city could have positive implications beyond the presidency.
Republicans are also on the rare brink of winning a state Senate seat in the city. local media reported Thursday. Challenger Joe Picozzi is poised to take Democrat Jimmy Dillon's seat in the working-class Mayfair district.
All three of Pennsylvania's attorney general, auditor and treasurer positions will be held by Republicans, but they will no doubt be buoyed by raw votes from counties where Trump has a majority.
After Republicans overturned Democrats' voter registration advantage in Luzerne County, Wilkes-Barre's home state, two months before the election, Trump also won the county by a 5.7-point margin, the second-largest in 2020. I added.
President Biden was born in Scranton, the twin city of Wilkes-Barre, where reliably Democratic Lackawanna County projected Trump's third-best improvement.
Harris narrowly won Lehigh County, home to the state's third largest city. Both candidates visited Allentown for the closing ceremony.
Coming statistics will show whether President Trump's reported Hispanic support helped trends in Lehigh, Philadelphia and Berks, home to Latino-majority Redding.
Trump holds rally in Pennsylvania city, which has the highest percentage of Hispanic population
Allentown, Pennsylvania is the third largest city in the state. (Charles Crates)
President Trump's fourth-best improvement was in the Lehigh area, which is home to a growing Latino population in a blue-tinged area, along with Pennsylvania's historically red-tinged German community.
Trump also pulled off a shocking upset in Lehi's sister county, Northampton County, from Biden in 2016.
Together, Lehi and Northampton form the post-industrial Lehigh Valley. On Election Day, local media reported hours-long lines at a banana factory in Bethlehem, where energetic Democratic students from Lehigh University lined up to vote.
In the end, it was Trump who outperformed in leading areas that colloquially include Warren County, New Jersey. There too, Trump easily won along with Representative Tom Keene Jr. (RN.J.). Another notable contest in the blue area.
President Trump's coattails lasted long in the Lehigh Valley as a Democrat. Susan Wilde concedes via tweet To State Representative Ryan McKenzie (R-Mackenzie).
Wilde has survived three nail biters since taking the seat following the retirement of anti-Trump Republican Charlie Dent in 2018.
Mr. Trump also performed well in rural Pike County, in the state's northeastern corner, supported by Mr. Milford, a staunch Democrat.
It also won by 0.1% in Bucks County, the swingiest suburb of Philadelphia. Philadelphia's other colored counties have not fielded a Republican candidate since George W. Bush won Chester County in 2004.
Republicans historically had their steepest declines in Philadelphia's collar counties in the period ending Tuesday since the Bush-Kerry race.
The possibility of electing Republican Senate leaders from this region does not seem possible at this time. But Dominic Pileggi, now a judge in Delaware County, did exactly that 20 years ago, electing Republican Wendell Butler Jr. to a one-term term in the then-Democratic supermajority city of Chester.
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But Trump made advances this year in Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Philadelphia.
One place Republican activists worked hard to red flag this year was Center County, which is primarily rural and home to Penn State University. In the end, Ms. Harris won the centrist party by 2 points, but the Republican Party benefited from Mr. Trump's 3-point better performance than in 2020.
But Pennsylvania wasn't the only Republican victory, with Harris also pointing to several counties in the central part of the state, particularly between Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Democratic news anchor Janelle Stelson. It gave the Democratic Party a glimmer of hope in the battleground district.
Mr. Trump won Harrisburg and neighboring suburban Cumberland County by 10 points, according to Times data, where Democrats performed one point better than in past years.
The same goes for neighboring deep red Perry County, which Trump won by 50 points.
Adams County, where Gettysburg is located. Jefferson County, home of Punxsutawney. Snyder County, home to Susquehanna University. and Juniata County, both of which Democrats gained several points compared to 2020.
Trump won in Dauphin County itself, which is rural Harrisburg, but Harris won by six points.
