Out of all the 67 counties in Pennsylvania, eight turned blue on Tuesday, signifying that voters for President-Elect Donald Trump flipped the swing state red.
Pennsylvania is one of a few swing states that helped Trump land his victory to become the 47th president of the United States Tuesday. When the count ended at 2 a.m., he landed 277 electoral votes.
Fox News was the first to call Trump’s victory after it was announced that he was projected to win Georgia and its 16 electoral votes. Fox News also called Pennsylvania for Trump first when the state had counted 90% of votes.
In his acceptance speech at West Palm Beach Florida, Trump thanked his supporters.
“Frankly I believe that this is the greatest political movement of all time,” Trump said. “We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible. It looks like we’ve achieved the most impossible political things.”
Trump will be the second president in history to be elected to a second term after a four year gap. The first to be elected after a gap was Grover Cleveland who initially served as the 22nd president after the 1884 election and then served as the 24th president after the 1892 election.
Trump recognized his five kids and wife Melania Trump who were on stage with him that night along with Elon Musk. He said that Musk was also campaigning across the state of Pennsylvania before election day and credited him for providing aid to North Carolina, including a communications system called Starlink, a portable communications device.
“I’ll never be doing another rally again, can you believe it?” Trump said. He also claimed that he did a total of 901 rallies.
In a penultimate rally at PPG Paints Arena Downtown, Trump took the stage in Pittsburgh at 7:30 p.m., competing with the Harris campaign that also held an event with Harris at Carrie Blast Furnaces until 10 p.m.
Carl Weekley, a 65-year-old registered Democrat attended Trump’s penultimate rally, the last of its kind, at PPG place on Monday. It was the first Trump rally he ever attended.
At the time, he hadn’t yet voted but planned to because he thinks that Trump will bring jobs back to the United States, lower prices and change the direction of the country.
Noah Carr, 24, was also at the rally because “Trump is his president,” he said. Carr said that since 2021, the price of insulin, a valuable drug he needs to live, has increased. He believes that Trump will lower those costs.
The second most urgent issue for Carr is to close the southern border. He saw the Trump Rally in Butler and City View and didn’t want to miss the Pittsburgh rally.
Katie Strobel, 24 and from Butler, wore a “Women for Trump” hat while in line at the PPG Place rally before the doors opened around 3:30 p.m.
At the time of the assassination attempt on Trump’s life in her hometown on July 13, she was at a wedding and her husband was at the Butler rally.
“At this wedding, they were pretty liberal based, they were shouting, hollering; why did they miss?” Strobel said. “They were pretty excited about it, it was pretty disturbing.”
It was her first time attending a rally, she said. She voted for Trump to improve the economy and taxes, and because she believes abortion is murder.
