The 2020 election established Montgomery County as a powerful Democratic stronghold in Pennsylvania
As holiday decorations went up across Montgomery County this month, the reindeer and the Santas shared lawn space with Biden-Harris signs.
“They’re still up and I think it’s intentional,” said Jane Murphy, a Democratic committeewoman who lives in Ardmore. A rebuttal, perhaps, to President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede his election loss. Or maybe, she thought, a lingering celebration of the overwhelming Democratic turnout in these suburban towns west of Philadelphia, which helped deliver Pennsylvania to Joe Biden and make him president-elect.
While Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have traditionally driven the Democratic vote in Pennsylvania, the suburbs showed up huge for Biden. And the biggest and bluest of them all is Montgomery County, whose leftward swing, while expected, still managed to defy expectations. Biden won the county with a margin 50% larger than Hillary Clinton’s in 2016 and double President Barack Obama’s in 2012.
“The numbers were just remarkable,” said U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, a Jenkintown Democrat. “I said Montgomery County will be the lynchpin for the state and that came absolutely true... I predict that we will continue to be sort of one of the most important counties in the country.”
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