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Philadelphia's Suburbs Helped Deliver Crucial Pennsylvania For Biden

In the four suburban counties that ring Philadelphia, Joe Biden topped President Trump by more than 280,000 votes.
Source: Daniel Wood

President Trump's surrogates spent last Saturday at a landscaping firm in Northeast Philadelphia, making unsubstantiated claims of rampant voter fraud in the city.

But it was Philadelphia's suburbs and their continued shift to Democrats that helped seal Pennsylvania — and the election — for President-elect Joe Biden.

The four counties that make up the city's suburbs — Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Bucks — this year saw a surge in both the size of the electorate and support for the Democratic presidential candidate.

That surge came, at least in part, from people like Carmen Ferrarello.

Ferrarello lives in Upper Dublin in Montgomery County and teaches English at Upper Moreland High School, the school soon-to-be first lady Jill Biden attended. He always considered himself a moderate Republican

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