2024 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania

The 2024 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Pennsylvania voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Pennsylvania has 19 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state lost a seat.

A purple to slightly blue Northeastern state partly within the Rust Belt, Pennsylvania has not backed a Republican for president by double digits since 1972, when 49-state landslide winner Richard Nixon won it by nearly 20 points; and the last Republican to win the state's electoral votes twice was Ronald Reagan. Between 1992 and 2012, Pennsylvania voted Democrat in every presidential election, although doing so by single-digit margins in each of them apart from Barack Obama's 10.31% victory in 2008. In 2016, Republican Donald Trump (whose home state was neighboring New York in said cycle) narrowly carried the state by 0.72% in his upset sweep of the Rust Belt and the first Republican presidential victory in Pennsylvania since 1988, but four years later lost the state to Democrat Joe Biden — a native Pennsylvanian representing neighboring Delaware — by 1.18% as the latter defeated the former nationwide. Pennsylvania is considered to be a crucial swing state in 2024, with most major news organizations marking it as a tossup.

In July 2024, Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt by Thomas Matthew Crooks when giving a speech near Butler, Pennsylvania.

Democratic primary
The Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary was held on April 23, 2024.

Republican primary
The Pennsylvania Republican presidential primary was held on April 23, 2024.

Polling

 * Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump


 * Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein


 * Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Jill Stein


 * Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


 * Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Cornel West


 * Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump


 * Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein


 * Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


 * Gavin Newsom vs. Donald Trump


 * Josh Shapiro vs. Donald Trump


 * Josh Shapiro vs. Donald Trump vs Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Jill Stein


 * Joe Biden vs. Nikki Haley


 * Joe Biden vs. Nikki Haley vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


 * Joe Biden vs. Ron DeSantis


 * Joe Biden vs. Ron DeSantis vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


 * Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Ron DeSantis

Canceled debate
In November 2023, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced it would host its sole vice presidential debate at Lafayette College in Easton on September 25, 2024. However, in May 2024, both the Biden and Trump campaigns declined to participate in CPD-sponsored debates due to conflicts with the commission regarding the 2020 debates. An alternative set of dates were scheduled by the campaigns themselves, effectively canceling the original schedule.

Trump rally shooting
On July 13, 2024, Trump was injured in an assassination attempt while holding a campaign rally west of Butler, Pennsylvania. The former president was struck in the right ear while on stage and was surrounded by Secret Service agents until the shooter was killed by members of the Counter Assault Team. One rally-goer died and two others were critically injured.