Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are pouring nearly a quarter of a billion dollars into Pennsylvania, which is a state deemed critical to winning the White House.
The duo’s campaigns are funneling a combined $210 million dollars into the Keystone state, more than double what they’re spending on other battleground races, according to a report from Axios.
The funding will target Pennsylvania voters with TV, digital, and radio ads. Harris is projected to spend more than $109 million compared to Trump’s $101.7 million in the eight months between the end of the Republican primary and Nov. 5.
The Harris and Trump campaigns’ decision to pump twice the funding into Pennsylvania as they have into Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Nevada, and Arizona, comes as the presidential race tightens.
Two recent polls indicate Pennsylvania’s high-stakes race is highly competitive. A Bloomberg News/Morning Consult survey indicates Trump leads Harris by 4 percentage points while another survey conducted by Public Policy Polling shows Harris trailing Trump, 48% to 47%, with 5% undecided.
Harris is rumored to be weighing Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) as her running mate, and the Republican and Democratic parties are weighing strategies to win the state this November. Shapiro is favorably viewed across his home state and could draw from his well of support to help the Harris ticket shore up votes in Pennsylvania.
Harris allegedly plans to interview Shapiro this weekend as she vets vice presidential contenders, according to a report from the Washington Post.
Trump won Pennsylvania and, with it, the presidency in 2016, only to lose both four years later. In 2020, Biden flipped the state by roughly 80,000 votes.
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After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt during a Pennsylvania rally this month, the GOP leader returned to the state to campaign in Harrisburg earlier this week.
Meanwhile, Harris is set to hold her first rally with her new vice presidential nominee on Aug. 6 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
