| − | '''Pennsylvania''', which means "[[William Penn|Penn]]'s woods" or "Penn's land," was one of the original thirteen colonies in the [[United States]]. Its capital is [[Harrisburg]] and it borders [[Ohio]], [[Maryland]], [[New York]], [[New Jersey]], [[Delaware]], and [[West Virginia]]. For two decades Pennsylvania repeatedly voted for the [[Democrat]] candidate for president, but in 2016 [[Republican]] [[Donald Trump]] carried the state by 44,000 votes with his message of "Make America Great Again" along with his criticism of [[free trade]] and illegal [[immigration]]. | + | '''Pennsylvania''', which means "[[William Penn|Penn]]'s woods" or "Penn's land," was one of the original thirteen colonies in the [[United States]]. Its capital is [[Harrisburg]] and it borders [[Ohio]], [[Maryland]], [[New York]], [[New Jersey]], [[Delaware]], and [[West Virginia]]. For two decades Pennsylvania repeatedly voted for the [[Democrat]] candidate for president, but in 2016 [[Republican]] [[Donald Trump]] carried the state by 44,000 votes with his message of "Make America Great Again" along with his criticism of [[free trade]] and illegal [[immigration]]. In 2020, Trump won by a landslide among in-person voters, but 2.6 million mailed-in votes without the statutorily required signature verification was counted in favor of [[Biden]], and he was declared the winner in a dispute outcome. |
| − | '''''Pennsylvania will be a key [[swing state]] for the 2020 presidential election, such that it will be difficult for a candidate to win the race without winning Pennsylvania'''''. As early as April 29, 2017, [[Donald Trump]] held a rally there in [[Harrisburg]], and is repeatedly returning to the state until the election. [[Democrat]]s switched to support [[Joe Biden]] as their presidential nomination in 2020 in part because of his popularity in Pennsylvania, where he was born and lived as a child until his family moved to neighboring [[Delaware]].
| |
| | The state Constitution of Pennsylvania, like all of the other 50 states, acknowledges God or our Creator or the ''Sovereign Ruler of the Universe''. It says: | | The state Constitution of Pennsylvania, like all of the other 50 states, acknowledges God or our Creator or the ''Sovereign Ruler of the Universe''. It says: |