Biden-favored Pennsylvania counties see population declines in latest warning sign for president

President Joe Biden’s centers of support in Pennsylvania experienced significant amounts of emigration, jeopardizing his chances of winning the state in the 2024 election.

Biden won Pennsylvania by just 80,555 votes in 2020. Philadelphia County and Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s second-largest city, were two of his biggest areas of support that helped him over the top. Census data revealed that Philadelphia County experienced some of the most significant emigration in the country, potentially hurting Biden’s election chances.

The sun illuminates the Philadelphia skyline as it sets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (Monica Herndon/the Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

“The biggest losses at the county level were in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County and Philadelphia. And those are two of the big centers of Biden’s support,” Berwood Yost, director of Floyd Institute’s Center for Opinion Research at
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