Donald Trump’s hard-fought win in Pennsylvania was key to his apparent victory Tuesday over Kamala Harris in the presidential race.   Fox News first called Pennsylvania for Trump at 1:22 a.m. Wednesday. Decision Desk HQ called Pennsylvania at 1:21 a.m. This put him at 267 electoral votes, three away from the 270 needed. Together with the red state of Alaska, with its three electoral votes, Pennsylvania put Trump over the top. At 1:50 a.m., Fox News called Wisconsin for Trump, bringing his total to 277 electoral votes.  Several factors may have played into Trump’s win in the ultimate battleground state of Pennsylvania. One unexpected factor was the Amish vote.  Amish residents of Pennsylvania registered to vote in record numbers, the New York Post reported. This particular conservative faith community rallied based in part on the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s raid on Amos Miller’s farm in January, according to Lancaster Farming. Like most Trump voters, Stan Navola, a Brighton Township resident, said he voted for the former president because of the economy.  “Trump I trust more on the issues,” Navola told The Daily Signal last week after casting his ballot early. “The economy is the number one issue. I don’t think Harris is qualified for the job.”  Several other Pennsylvania voters who spoke to The Daily Signal last week said they backed Trump primarily because of the economy—pointing to the Biden-Harris administration’s record on inflation, taxes, and spending.  “The economy is a train wreck and crime is high. I’ve had to fire people just to have enough money in the budget to hire additional security,” Pittsburgh resident David Nelle told The Daily Signal. “We can’t have a good economy without restoring safety.”  In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump by 50% to 48.8% of the vote in Pennsylvania. In 2016, Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton 48.2% to 47.5%, the first Republican presidential candidate to win the Keystone State since George H.W. Bush in 1988.  Nancy Roderick, 89, of Pittsburgh, said she considered the stakes to be high. “I think if we don’t win this time, it’s all over,” Roderick, a resident of the North Hills suburbs of Pittsburgh, told The Daily Signal.  Susan Nightingale, 81, of Pittsburgh, said her biggest motivation was the Biden-Harris administration’s poor performance.  “I think Pennsylvanians can overall see what is going on now needs to stop,” Nightingale told The Daily Signal. “They didn’t finish the border fence. It’s a shame they are just letting that fence material lie there [as] waste.” Charles Schrankel of Ross Township said he isn’t usually strictly partisan. “I voted the straight Republican ticket, and I don’t always vote straight party,” Shrankel told The Daily Signal outside the polling station in Wexford, Pennsylvania.  Wexford resident Mike Quigley said he looked at both the economy and the border.  “Trump and all the Republicans,” Quigley told The Daily Signal about who he voted for. “The border, the economy; I liked the way it was four years ago.”  The post Why Trump Carried Pennsylvania on Path Back to Presidency appeared first on The Daily Signal.

BREAKING: Fox Calls PA For Trump; DDHQ Calls Election; UPDATE

The writing was seemingly on the wall shortly before midnight on Election Day when CNN all but called the race for former President Trump. The so-called journalists were somber as they basically resigned themselves to a second Trump presidency; laughably admitting that Vice President Harris “could not out run the Biden economy” the media had been telling Americans they were too stupid to understand. “Generally speaking, he is over performing with what he did in 2020 and she is underperforming what Joe Biden did in 2020. And that ends up what was a narrow edge for Biden is, at this point – we have to condition it – a narrow defeat for Harris,” lamented Chris Wallace.     Dana Bash suggested that North Carolina was a bell whether microcosm of the rest of the country, “In that there are growing minority populations, and there is a growing sort of suburban maybe more moderate population in and around the big cities.” But she and Audie Cornish admitted that it was the economic pain that sunk the Harris campaign: BASH: But look, the headwinds of the economy, the inflation that people are feeling, the difficulty in their everyday lives. CORNISH: Yeah. She could not outrun the Biden economy. BASH: She couldn’t. The economy, Chris, that is what people are feeling every single day. “I mean, we were talking earlier about whether or not the, sort of, women and the idea of this being the first post-Roe presidential campaign was going to supersede how people felt when they were buying eggs and milk,” Bash added. “And certainly, in North Carolina and other places that we are seeing start to formulate in these other states, the answer is no.” Clearly, the American people saw through the liberal media’s years of gaslighting about the economy. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN’s Election Night in America November 5, 2024 11:44:48 p.m. Eastern (…) CHRIS WALLACE: Generally speaking, he is over performing with what he did in 2020 and she is underperforming what Joe Biden did in 2020. And that ends up what was a narrow edge for Biden is, at this point – we have to condition it – a narrow defeat for Harris. DANA BASH: And the thing about North Carolina – and John has been talking about this and we’ll do more at the wall – is, you do have kind of a sense of the country in the state of North Carolina. In that there are growing minority populations, and there is a growing sort of suburban maybe more moderate population in and around the big cities. And so, that is why the Harris campaign thought, with the dynamics of the country right now, that she would have a better shot. But look, the headwinds of the economy, the inflation that people are feeling, the difficulty in their everyday lives. AUDI CORNISH: Yeah. She could not outrun the Biden economy. BASH: She couldn’t. The economy, Chris, that is what people are feeling every single day. I mean, we were talking earlier about whether or not the, sort of, women and the idea of this being the first post-Roe presidential campaign was going to supersede how people felt when they were buying eggs and milk. And certainly, in North Carolina and other places that we are seeing start to formulate in these other states, the answer is no. (…)

While not as voluminous and open in their meltdowns early Tuesday night as the election results grew grim for liberals, ABC News was nonetheless searching for excuses, including claims that Latinos moving toward Trump wasn’t definitive and, if they had (they did), it was their unfortunate choice to fall victim to “exaggeration” and “mistruths” from Donald Trump to instead side with “their truth” in the form of high grocery and gas bills. ABC’s chief global affairs anchor and This Week co-host Martha Raddatz was despondent in the 10:00 p.m. Eastern hour, lamenting her travels through the Sun Belt revealed Trump’s focus on the economy resonating with Hispanics and that they saw past his “exaggeration,” “mistruths,” and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s comment at a Trump rally about Puerto Rico being “garbage” to instead chose “their truth.” This, she explained, was their personal economic situations: ABC’s Martha Raddatz bemoans Latinos are still voting for “their truth” in the form of “their grocery bills, their gas bills” and ignoring Trump’s “exaggeration,” “them calling Puerto Ricans garbage,” and “mistruths”.... Muir: “You traveled through Nevada and through the Sun… pic.twitter.com/MwEH9CC3Sv — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 Nearly 90 minutes earlier, former Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas weighed in, refusing to believe that Puerto Ricans still voted for Trump: ABC’s Maria Elena Salinas dismisses Trump doing well with Puerto Ricans and Latinos in Florida, claiming “we have to wait to receive those results,” arguing and implicitly claiming Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks at the MSG rally will impact the Latino vote for Harris pic.twitter.com/fYlZcW1Gte — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 When ABC discussed the constitutional amendment in Florida expanding abortion access falling short, their turned to progressive legal analyst Kate Shaw — who’s the wife of MSNBC host Christ Hayes — to offer some words of solace (click “expand”): ABC legal analyst Kate Shaw -- aka Mrs. Chris Hayes from MSNBC -- tells viewers to cheer up on Florida voters failing to pass the constitutional referendum on abortion, arguing hey, 57% *did* vote yes! pic.twitter.com/ml1tplzcyR — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 SHAW: Well, of course it's right that under Florida's rules this amendment failed. But you look at the numbers, 57 percent of Floridians actually did vote to protect abortion under the state's constitution, so it just has a higher threshold than other states. So, of course, it's right this amendment failed. But I also think the data tells us that even a lot of voters presumably who voted for Donald Trump also voted to protect abortion. I think the question is Kamala Harris has tried to make the case that even though abortion is only on the ballot in ten states this cycle, it's really on the ballot everywhere because it matters so much who the president is, what the law surrounding abortion will be. The question is how that message resonates if at all in other states. DAVID MUIR: And in particular in Florida, Kate, to — to vote it down and to vote for Donald Trump when you look out west to Nevada and Arizona where it's also on the ballot, it's going to get into this whole notion of sort of, you know, a split ticket, whether or not you vote for the amendment but then you don't vote for Kamala Harris, you don't tie the two together. SHAW: Potentially. So, I think we’re going to see throughout the night how much voters are separating these issues out. But, of course, in these states there are will her thresholds for actually voting to protect abortion and maybe you will see if Florida voters thought, well, abortion will be protected in our state, we can still vote for Donald Trump because, you know, we'll have protections here for voting for this amendment, that may or may not be true depending on what — if Trump is elected president, what happens at the federal level with respect to abortion. But there may be complex calculuses going on about kind of what state law will mean with respect to abortion and what the federal government could do with respect to abortion. MUIR: Absolutely. We're going to continue to track it, particularly in those western swing states.  In a sidenote, there was this interlude just after 8:30 p.m. Eastern with Raddatz and ABC News Live host Linsey Davis touting white women: ABC's Linsey Davis and Martha Raddatz tout white women as likely to go to Kamala Harris, adding she's winning them b/c of "Dona;d Trump's language" and "things [he] has said" about wnating to "protect" them "whether they like it or not" and calling Harris "names" pic.twitter.com/VV92gTI5cT — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 The evolution of Mary Bruce — Disney’s in-house North Korean news lady for the Harris campaign — was something to watch. First, here she was early in the night: ABC's Mary Bruce is going to be one of the people to watch in the liberal media for tears of joy if Kamala Harris wins and anger if Trump wins. This spin at around 7:15 p.m. Eastern is just gross. pic.twitter.com/R9PyJRwthv — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 Then, there was this from 7:41 p.m. Eastern: ABC's Mary Bruce swoons over Kamala Harris's campaign telling her that Hollywood celebrities are being dispatched to polling places to encourage people to stay in line pic.twitter.com/D0BOXJTIGH — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 Bruce slowly made the pivot 12 minutes later, suggesting Trump not campaigning with Nikki Haley and the Madison Square Garden rally could sink him: ABC's David Muir and Mary Bruce speculate that Nikki Haley not campaigning for Trump and the Madison Square Garden rally spell doom for him. pic.twitter.com/DTr3brWoxY — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 By 10:34 p.m. Eastern, the nervousness had crept in: Just after 10:30 pm Eastern, ABC's Mary Bruce was still expressing hope for Kamal Harris, arguing "they knew this was going to" end up "tight." pic.twitter.com/nbEdZGJ9Vq — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024 By 11:03 p.m. Eastern, chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl was done with her attempts to keep hope alive: Right after ABC's Mary Bruce talks about "a reality check" from the Harris campaign insisting they still have a path to victory, Jonathan Karl lampoons it, saying he's heard from Democrats "who feel that this is looking very bad for her" with only "steep & narrow path" left pic.twitter.com/ztCCRnHF7R — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 6, 2024

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been declared the winner of Georgia, a crucial battleground state, after midnight on Wednesday morning. The Peach State, as it is nicknamed, has 16 electoral votes that could help decide the presidential election. Polls closed at 7 p.m. ET. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had previously accused Russia of trying to create chaos in the state's election. Georgia became a battleground state after previously being considered a deep red state. In 2020, President Joe Biden took the state with a slim margin of only about 11,800 votes, or about two-tenths of a percent of the total votes cast. It was the first time that Georgia had gone Democrat since Bill Clinton won it in 1992. Controversy over the 2020 runoff elections for Georgia's seats in the U.S. Senate led to Democrats taking both contested elections and swinging the Senate to Democratic control. The Harris campaign saw storm clouds in Georgia in October when a poll found that its efforts to persuade male voters to vote Democrat were failing miserably. Only three out of 10 male respondents said they were going to vote for Harris in the state. Nearly six in 10 male voters said they were voting for Trump. Officials in Georgia reported some threats meant to derail the election, including bomb threats against five voting locations that led to voting being suspended. “Rest assured that we are working quickly to ensure every voter will have an opportunity to cast their ballot despite these bomb threats,” said DeKalb election official Keisha Smith. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are suspending voting at these polling locations until we have clearance from DeKalb Police to reopen the facilities.” The FBI said the bomb threats did not appear to be credible, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had previously accused Russia of trying to create chaos in the state's election based on investigations into hoax videos that had gone viral. Join Glenn Beck, Allie Beth Stuckey, Liz Wheeler, Steve Deace, Sara Gonzales, Jason Whitlock, Dave Rubin, Stu Burguiere, Dave Landau, Alex Stein, James Poulos, Auron MacIntyre, Daniel Horowitz, Christopher Bedford, Jill Savage, Hilary Kennedy, Delano Squires, and Matthew Peterson for Blaze Media’s exclusive election-night coverage. For honest analysis, on-the-ground coverage, and commentary from some of the most brilliant contemporary political minds, tune in to our exclusive live coverage as we deliver election results in real time. Our coverage starts at 6:00 p.m. ET as the first polls close. Plus, tonight only, get $47 off your first year of BlazeTV+ with code 47. Watch on BlazeTV, YouTube, or X. Oh, and if you haven't already done so, vote today!

Donald Trump has won Pennsylvania's 19 Electoral College votes, all but ensuring his return to the White House.When Fox News called the race at 1:20 a.m. ET, Trump led Kamala Harris by 3.4%, or more than 200,000 votes with 91% of the vote counted. That's a significant improvement compared to 2020, when Trump lost Pennsylvania by about 1.2%.With the election coming down to seven battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin — the eventual president-elect almost certainly needed to win the Keystone State. And now that Trump has accomplished that feat, the second time in the last three presidential elections, he is certainly headed back to the White House.With victories in North Carolina, Georgia, and now Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris' path to the White House is impossible. Even if she wins Arizona and Nevada, she will not reach 270 Electoral College votes.Trump managed to win Pennsylvania because of strong early voting and improved margins compared to 2020. In other words, President Joe Biden outperformed Harris — and that benefited Trump. — (@) As with other states, Trump appears to be benefiting from a significant voter realignment in which more Hispanic and black voters are supporting a Republican for president. For example, Trump won Hispanic voters in Pennsylvania by a margin of 3-to-10 in 2020. Exit polls this year, however, showed he improved that margin to 4-in-10. Voters, of course, view the economy as the most important issue — and with Democrats already in control of the White House, that's bad news for Harris.In Butler County, where an assassin nearly murdered Trump in July, Trump defeated Harris. He even flipped several counties that Biden won in 2020, including Erie County, Northampton County, and Centre County, where Penn State is located.With Trump's strong performance, Republican David McCormick is most likely going to defeat Sen. Bob Casey (D), flipping yet another Senate seat and helping bolster a Republican majority in the Senate. At the time of publication, McCormick led Casey by nearly 2%.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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