An electoral worker takes part in the scanning process during ballot counting for the 2024 election on Election Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Leah Millis/Reuters

AP Race Call: Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania

Politics

Former President Donald Trump won Pennsylvania on Wednesday, defeating Democrat Kamala Harris in the critical battleground state.

Both candidates campaigned vigorously in the state, visiting it more often than any other.

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Trump won Pennsylvania's 19 electoral votes four years after Democrat Joe Biden carried the state, flipping it from Trump's column in 2016 on his way to capturing the "blue wall." No Democrat has won the White House without also winning Pennsylvania since 1948.

The Associated Press declared Trump the winner at 2:24 a.m. EST.

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