The gap is narrowing between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in polls conducted in July. The compilation of the latter gives the Republican with 48% of favorable votes, against 47% for the Democrat. But these national figures are less telling than the trends in each state. The American presidential election is an indirect vote: American voters vote and elect electors who are more or less numerous depending on the population rate of each state (the more inhabitants there are, the more electors there are) and the latter vote for a presidential candidate. When a state is won by the Republicans or the Democrats, all its seats are allocated to one and the same candidate, and it is this number of seats that counts to be elected. You have to win at least 270 of them.
While some states historically and systematically vote for the same camp, others called “Swing states” vary from election to election and often determine the outcome of the election: these are Texas (38 electoral votes), Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Georgia (16), Michigan (16), North Carolina (15), Arizona (11), Wisconsin (10) and Iowa (6). These are the states with many electoral votes that must be won. And so far, according to 270towin, Donald Trump is leading in most of them.
Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116