Donald Trump Has a Republicans Problem in Pennsylvania

On Tuesday, 157,000 Republicans voted for a candidate no longer running for president. They may just be the group that decides Pennsylvania in November.

Nikki Haley

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Bob McMahon voted for Donald Trump in 2016. He voted for him again in 2020. But in a primary already decided for the former president, McMahon couldn’t vote for Trump again.

“I didn’t even know Nikki Haley would still be on the ballot until I saw it when I was voting yesterday. But I’m not going to vote for Trump, so I guess to some degree, it’s a meaningless protest vote, but I know for sure I will not be voting for Trump in November.”

McMahon, a 60-year-old attorney in the Philadelphia suburb of Chester County, is one of 157,000 registered Republicans in Pennsylvania who voted for Haley on Tuesday.