Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump took Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes, according to an Associated Press projection at 2:24 a.m. ET.
Trump had also taken the first two battleground states, North Carolina and Georgia.
By 1 a.m., Harris’s path to victory had narrowed to a razor-thin margin, requiring wins in key counties of remaining swing states where Trump maintained leads. Pennsylvania presented a close race, which the Associated Press could not call until an estimated 95 percent of the vote was counted.
Despite gaining status as a “blue wall” state from the Clinton through the Obama administrations, Pennsylvania flipped for former President Donald Trump in 2016 by a narrow 0.73 percent margin, leading to his victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. President Joe Biden won the state four years later by 1.17 percent….