Who Trump is courting in Pennsylvania on Saturday
President Trump's Pennsylvania rally blitz on Saturday is primarily taking him to GOP strongholds to excite supporters and activate Republicans who may not have voted four years ago -- a bid to supercharge Election Day turnout to offset any Democratic gains in the suburbs.
Stop 1: Bucks County
Bucks County is 25 miles north of Philadelphia and the fourth-most-populous county in the state. It's Trump's only stop on Saturday to an area that isn't reliably Republican. While it's gone blue in every presidential election since 2000, the margin has tightened in recent years. Hillary Clinton won Bucks County by fewer than 3,000 votes in 2016. Demographically, Bucks County is 88.1% white, with 40.5% of residents holding bachelor's degrees or higher, according to the 2019 census.
Stop 2: Berks County
Trump stopped next in Reading, the seat of Berks County and the fifth-largest city in Pennsylvania. Berks County came close to flipping for former President Barack Obama in 2012, where he lost by under 2,000 votes. Trump closed that gap four years ago, seizing the lion's share of the vote by 18,000. Demographically, Berks County is a little more diverse than Bucks. The census estimates that as of 2019, 86.9% of Berks County residents identified as white and 22.5% identified as Latino -- compared to 5.7% in Bucks County. Only about 24.5% of Berks County residents hold degrees.
Stop 3: Butler County
Trump will travel next to Butler County in western Pennsylvania, another Republican stronghold since 2000. He handily trounced Clinton here in 2016, receiving more than 61,000 votes compared to Clinton's 26,834. According to The Associated Press, more than 10,000 Republicans in the county did not vote in 2016. Butler County is overwhelmingly white, according to census estimates (95.8%), and only 35.4% of residents hold bachelor's degrees or higher.
Stop 4: Lycoming County
The final stop will be Montoursville in Lycoming County -- yet another GOP area that has not been hotly contested to as far back as 2000.
Bonus: Luzerne County
First lady Melania Trump was also heading to Wapwallopen in Luzerne County this evening -- one of three "pivot" counties that went for Trump four years ago after backing Obama twice.
-ABC News' Benjamin Siegel