History likely will have fun with the story: an aging twice-impeached former president, a convicted felon viewed unfavorably by a majority of Americans, and labeled a threat to American democracy after trying to overthrow his lost 2020 reelection bid, makes a comeback and wins the White House four years later for a second time.

And in Pennsylvania, birthplace of American democracy and the state most critical in facilitating said comeback, questions such as how’d that happen might reasonably arise.