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in which all 50 states plus the

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will participate.

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voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Pennsylvania has 19 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following

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due to the

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in which the state lost a seat. A purple to slightly blue

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state partly within the

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, Pennsylvania has not backed a Republican for president by double digits since

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, when 49-state landslide winner

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won it by nearly 20 points; and the last Republican to win the state's electoral votes twice was

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. Between

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and

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, Pennsylvania voted Democrat in every presidential election, although doing so by single-digit margins in each of them apart from

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's 10.31% victory in

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. In

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, Republican

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(whose home state was neighboring

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in said cycle) narrowly carried the state by 0.72% in his upset sweep of the

and the first Republican presidential victory in Pennsylvania since

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, but four years later lost the state to Democrat Joe Biden — a native Pennsylvanian representing neighboring

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— by 1.18% as the latter defeated the former nationwide. Pennsylvania is considered to be a crucial swing state in 2024, with most major news organizations marking it as a tossup. Incumbent Democratic president and Pennsylvanian-born Joe Biden is running for reelection to a second term.

Primary elections

Democratic primary

The 2024 Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary will take place on April 23, 2024.

Republican primary

The Pennsylvania Republican presidential primary will be held on April 23, 2024.

General election

Predictions

Polling

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Notes

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References

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