It would appear that former President Donald Trump has gained significant ground in Pennsylvania. 

This is according to several sources, including U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Pennsylvania Chase's Cliff Maloney.

Fetterman commented on the situation last week in an interview with The Atlantic, while Maloney did his own interview with Breitbart News.

The significance of this cannot be overstated, given that Pennsylvania is one of the key swing states - one of the states that could swing the election either in the direction of Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris.

Maloney: Trump "has the edge"

Maloney, in his interview, made a couple of big statements. The first is that voter registration and mail-in ballot request data suggest that Trump has the edge over Harris in Pennsylvania.

He said:

In 2020, we were down 700,000 to the Democrats in registration. Now, we’re just about 300,000 . . . And forget the polls. Forget all the people that, you know, the pundits on the left that want to scream … follow the numbers. And the mail-in requests and the registrations show us that Trump has the edge right now in PA.

In terms of ballot requests, Maloney said that there is roughly a 250,000-ballot-request swing toward Republicans and away from Democrats, since the 2020 presidential election.

This leads to the second big statement made by Maloney, which is that the Democrats, in Pennsylvania, are "hemorrhaging" voters.

We'll have to see whether Maloney is right about all of this as the election draws nearer.

Fetterman weighs in

In his interview, Fetterman suggested that Trump has "a special kind of hold" in Pennsylvania, particularly after the first assassination attempt on his life - which took place in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The senator said:

Trump has created a special kind of hold within the coronet. He’s remade – the party – and he has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania, and I think that only deepened after the first assassination attempt.

Fetterman went on to explain what has been going on in Pennsylvania "on the ground" since the assassination attempt.

He said:

I also want people to understand, you know, and it’s not science, but there is, there’s energy and there are kinds of anger on the ground in Pennsylvania — and people are very committed and strong. And I joked that his signs became like the state flower – and you see that everywhere.

Trump lost Pennsylvania in 2020 by about 80,000 votes. If Fetterman and Maloney are right, then 2024 could be a different story.