“If we win Pennsylvania, we win the Presidency”

PHILADELPHIA: Former President Donald Trump courted voters in Pennsylvania Saturday (June 22), declaring “If we win Pennsylvania, we win the Presidency.”

Trump’s campaign rally at Temple University was held in a historically Black area of Philadelphia, long a stronghold for Democrats. Trump won just 5 per cent of the vote in precincts within a half-mile radius of Temple’s main campus, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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The Trump campaign has made courting Black and Hispanic voters, who make up more than half of Philadelphia’s population, a priority this cycle, encouraged by some opinion polls that indicate he made be gaining ground with these voters.

While Trump has little chance of winning the city – President Joe Biden, a Democrat, won 81.4 per cent of the votes in Philadelphia County in 2020 – Trump could still boost his chances by narrowing the margin in Philadelphia and surrounding counties so critical to the overall tally in Pennsylvania, a battleground state.