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PENNSYLVANIA
I had thought about holding on to this a while longer, but I'm dumbfounded that people try to say that party registration doesn't indicate anything.
Here are the last six presidential elections in PA. Pay attention to the Dem Reg Lead column (lead in registrations), and then the final column which subtracts the margin (Dem all but once) from the Dem registration lead.
PA ALWAYS votes right of its Dem registration. This will slow down some as the state formally reclassifies itself from Dem heavy to purple or even red, but TRUMP has finished on average 782,915 RIGHT of the Dem registration lead. The "fortification" of the 2020 election caused this number to dip to 605,263.
If Trump pulls the same 605,263 equation in 2024, he would win the state by 280k votes, or 4%.
At the average GOP coefficient of 620,635, he wins by 295k, or 4.2%. If he runs with the Trump average, you're at 6.5%. By the time registrations close, Trump would still tilt the state if he had HALF the coefficient he had in 2020, and we have to go all the way back to 2000 to find a coefficient that Harris would win with, and it's less than 30k by the time of the election.
PA is looking more like Ohio 2016 than it is the standard Nevada tease.