With 14 days to go until the election, voter registration has closed in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, where polls are currently very close.
Registration ended on Monday with more than 9 million people in Pennsylvania registered to vote in the November 5 election, according to the most recent data from the Department of State.
This was 2,000 registrations shy of the 9,090,962 who signed up to vote in the 2020 general election.
However, while Monday was the last day to register to vote in person or online, voters still have until Tuesday October 29 to request a mail-in ballot. So far more than 1.8 million mail-in ballots have been requested for the 2024 election in Pennsylvania, local TV station WGAL reported.
Polls show that the race is now virtually neck and neck. However, Donald Trump now has a slight edge over Kamala Harris.
Trump was leading President Joe Biden in Pennsylvania before Biden exited the race in July. Since then, Harris has held a slight edge, but as of early Monday the Republican nominee was leading by a slim margin—0.3 points. According to polls averager FiveThirtyEight, Trump holds 47.9 percent support in the state, while Harris stands