Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) reviewed the numbers and confirmed that Donald Trump has a steep hill to climb to win Pennsylvania.
Shapiro mentioned on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Importantly, I feel it’s additionally one thing notable that final evening in Pennsylvania, when the votes have been tallying, we’re nonetheless telling a number of right here and there. However simply trying on the broader numbers, about 100 and 60,000 registered Republicans went to the polls and voted for Nikki Haley. About 100,000 to 120,000 voted for somebody apart from Joe Biden on the Democratic aspect, as you have been alluding to earlier than. That’s a delta of about 40,00-45,000 votes to the destructive for Donald Trump.
Simply put that in some perspective in 2016 in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump solely gained the commonwealth by 44,000 votes. He’s obtained a variety of work to do to win over voters, notably in suburban communities outdoors Harrisburg and Erie, Pittsburgh, and, after all, Philadelphia. People who find themselves extremely indignant that he ripped away their basic freedoms and he’s taking credit score for this overturned Roe v.Wade. That’s going to proceed to be a problem that he’s not making any inroads on. So I feel every candidate has some work to do. The hill is kind of steeper for Donald Trump to climb.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro explains Trump’s Pennsylvania downside and it begins with abortion, “That’s going to proceed to be a problem that he’s not making any inroads on. So I feel every candidate has some work to do. The hill is kind of steeper for Donald Trump to climb.” pic.twitter.com/A2w9VvUCBW
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 24, 2024
As I wrote in our e-newsletter, The Day by day, Pennsylvania seems able to reject Donald Trump. The state’s main outcomes uncovered the huge issues that Trump has as a candidate. Republican enthusiasm for a 3rd Trump run is decrease than his earlier two campaigns. Haley drew a considerable variety of Republican votes throughout the state, and Trump is overly depending on rural counties in Pennsylvania with declining populations for his vote share.
No matter issues Biden might need in Pennsylvania, they aren’t on the identical scale as Trump’s points. As Gov. Shapiro put it, Trump has a a lot bigger hill to climb to win Pennsylvania than Biden.
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