Sidebar,” the Post’s James Hohman explains the importance of winning Pennsylvania and other factors influencing the dynamics of the 2024 presidential race.

The Economist’s forecast model suggests that the state—with its 19 electoral-college votes, the most of any swing state—is the tipping-point in 27% of the model’s updated simulations, meaning it decides the election more often than any other state.

According to the latest CBS News Poll, if the presidential election were held today, 59% of likely voters would vote for Vice President Kamala Harris compared to 41% for former President Donald Trump. "We are the future," said DaJaun Wortham, a student at Community College of Philadelphia. "Young people are the future."

Voters in Pennsylvania are not yet able to cast ballots, despite confusion over a state law concerning applications for mail ballots.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said he thinks former President Trump has a “special” place among Pennsylvania voters and it only deepened after a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in the state in July.

Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in Pennsylvania by 3 percentage points thanks to a major advantage with women voters, a USA TODAY poll found.

"There’s energy and there’s kinds of anger on the ground in Pennsylvania, and people are very committed," Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said. "Trump is going to be strong."

The battle for Pennsylvania remains tight in the race for the Oval Office, although Vice President Kamala Harris has held the advantage in a handful of polls since September 10, when she tangled with former President Donald Trump under the bright lights of a Philadelphia stage in the presidential debate.

Pennsylvania’s highest court will decide if counties have to accept provisional ballots cast on election day at polling places by voters whose mail-in ballots lacked secrecy envelopes or were rejected for other flaws.