Out of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania, eight turned blue on Tuesday, signaling that voters flipped the swing state red for President-Elect Donald Trump, helping him secure his victory and become the 47th president of the United States.
Fox News was the first to call the victory, like in 2020, projecting his win of Georgia’s 16 electoral votes. Then, the following morning at 2 a.m., the count concluded and the AP News confirmed he garnered 277 electoral 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 is the second man in history, next to Grover Cleveland, to win a second term after a four-year hiatus. Cleveland won the 22nd presidency in 1884 and the 24th presidency in 1892.
While on stage, Trump recognized his five kids, Melania Trump and Elon Musk, who were there to represent him. He said Musk campaigned across the state of Pennsylvania before election day and credited him with aiding North Carolina through his communications system Starlink, a portable communications device.
Pittsburgh
Trump took the stage at PPG Paints Arena the night before election day for his second-to-last rally ever, competing with Kamala Harris’s rally at Carrie Blast Furnace.
When he appeared on the stage at 7 p.m. Monday, it was 65-year-old Carl Weekly’s first time, and first rally, where he saw Trump in the flesh.
“I’ll never be doing another rally again,” Trump said in his acceptance speech. “Can you believe it?” He claimed to have held a total of 901 rallies on the campaign trail.
At the time, Weekly hadn’t yet voted but planned to the next day based on his belief that Trump would bring jobs back to the United States, lower prices, and change the direction of the country.
“Trump is my president,” 24-year-old Noah Carr said.
He hopes Trump will lower the price of insulin, a cost that has risen for him and other Americans since 2021 he said. Secondly, he believes that Trump will secure the southern border. He attended Trump rallies in Butler and City View and didn’t want to miss the Pittsburgh rally.
While she waited in line, Katie Strobel, 24 from Butler, wore a “Women for Trump” hat at the PPG Place rally before the doors opened around 3:30 p.m.
She told a story that at the time of the assassination attempt on Trump’s life on July 13, she attended 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, she said, because she wants him to improve the economy, and taxes and because she believes abortion is murder.
Although it was a loss, Vice President Kamala Harris still gained 224 electoral votes from the following states: California, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Illinois, Virginia, New York, and smaller states before the count ended at 2 a.m.
