The "blue wall" states all voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in every election since 1992, while the light blue states voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2024. The blue wall is a term coined in 2009 in the political culture of the United States to refer to the 18 states (along with Washington, D.C.) that consistently voted blue (i.e., for the Democratic Party) in the six. So what states comprise the "blue wall?" That would be Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Those three states have been pivotal to elect presidents in the last several elections. All three states are part of the so-called "blue wall," a set of states that have typically voted for Democrats in presidential elections since 1992. Which states are part of the blue wall?
Donald Trump famously flipped three key "blue wall" states in 2016. As all eyes are on the swing states on election night, here is what the polls say. As results for the 2024 U.S.
presidential election pour in, the nation's attention is zeroing in on three states in the Great Lakes region that play an outsized role in the outcome of the election. Polls in Wisconsin closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday, and many voters across the U.S.
are wondering if Vice President Kamala Harris will win the state and others in the "blue wall" as the race remains. Among the fiercest battlegrounds in this year's US presidential election are three states Donald Trump won in 2016 but lost in 2020. The 2016 election broke that pattern: Trump won the presidency by dislodging the big three of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin from the Blue Wall by a combined margin of about 80,000 votes.
Of these, California is the largest, as it has 54 electoral votes, followed by New York with 28. Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, especially, are top priorities for candidates in the 2024 election. Trump, in 2016, flipped the states to Republican, but Biden was able to win them back in 2020.
