Former President Donald Trump pulled a Grover Cleveland and became only the second person to win two non-consecutive terms as President of the United States.
While Vice President Kamala Harris lost Pennsylvania, she did win Montgomery County. If you drill down even further, you will find she also easily won the four communities regularly covered by GlensideLocal.com (Abington, Cheltenham, Jenkintown, and Springfield).
When we woke up Wednesday morning, Montgomery County still had approximately 30,000 absentee and mail-in ballots to count (about 6,000 remain to be counted as of this morning).
While winning over Trump in all four municipalities, Harris did not equal or surpass Biden’s 2020 vote total in any of these municipalities. Trump did slightly better than his 2020 results in Abington, Cheltenham, and Jenkintown, and only missed equaling his 2020 total by eight votes in Springfield.
Below is the breakdown of Harris over Trump locally (unofficial results):
Abington 2020 – 25,079 to 11,325
Abington 2024 – 23,960 to 11,634
Harris is down 1,119 from 2020
Trump is up 309 from 2020
Cheltenham 2020 – 19,635 to 3,201
Cheltenham 2024 – 18,736 to 3,279
Harris is down 899 from 2020
Trump is up 78 from 2020
Jenkintown 2020 – 2,481 to 619
Jenkintown 2024 – 2,401 to 648
Harris is down 80 from 2020
Trump is up 29 from 2020
Springfield 2020 – 10,027 to 3,820
Springfield 2024 – 9,751 to 3,812
Harris is down 276 from 2020
Trump is down eight from 2020