Newsweek, November 2024
Most political experts agree that Vice President Kamala Harris’ likeliest path to victory in the Electoral College lies through Pennsylvania—but there is a way for her to win without the swing state. Pennsylvania, with its 19 electoral votes, is the biggest battleground state this year and is expected to play an outsized role in deciding the election between Harris and former President Donald Trump.
Polls show the two candidates locked in a dead heat in Pennsylvania. FiveThirtyEight’s polling average shows Trump ahead by just 0.2 points as of Sunday. Most experts say that whoever wins the Keystone State is likely to go on to win the White House and that Harris’ easiest path to victory is by carrying Pennsylvania and the other two “blue wall” states—Michigan and Wisconsin—that President Joe Biden won in 2020.
