CNN has not yet called the commonwealth for the former vice president, but for Biden -- a son of Scranton -- eclipsing Trump in the Keystone State was a symbolic moment in the course of a political career that has spanned nearly five decades.
With the latest batch of tabulated vote counts released Friday morning, Biden now has a lead of 5,587 votes in the state.
During the long and hard-fought primary Democratic primary, Biden repeatedly made the case that he alone could sway the blue-collar voters who abandoned his party to support Donald Trump in 2016 and could rebuild the Democrats' "blue wall" in the Midwest that Trump had demolished.
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