How the US presidential election is going

The 2024 US presidential election has been marked by important events during the campaigns of its presidential candidates, which has made the atmosphere somewhat tense. Both the attacks against candidate Donald Trump and Biden's withdrawal to make way for Kamala Harris in the face of a possible defeat were news a few months ago.

However, today, American citizens went to the polls to cast their vote for the person they believe will lead the country forward in the next four years of his term. The polls for the elections are even and it is the so-called "swing states" that will decide which of the two candidates will take the presidential seat in the White House.

According to the website «270towin», the Republican candidate Donald Trump and his vice president, if he wins, JD Vance, currently have 122 sure votes and 97 possible votes, which adds up to a total of 219 votes. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris, candidate for the Democratic Party, and her running mate Tim Walz have 19 sure votes and 35 probable votes, which add up to 226 votes.

The states where the elections will be much more interesting are Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, among others, which add up to 93 votes. Today, November 5, the presidential voting that had already begun weeks ago in some states that allow early voting concludes. Around 77 million people of the 220 million who are eligible to vote in the United States cast their vote by email and in person at the different locations enabled for this purpose.

The 2024 presidential election is the 60th time that voters will elect representatives who will then choose the president and vice president through the electoral college. This means that the president is not elected directly by the citizens, but through an indirect mechanism that was created centuries ago by the founders of the United States of America.

The states of the country contribute a set number of votes to the Electoral College that allows a candidate to win the presidency provided that he or she accumulates a total of at least 270 votes. There are several of these states that by tradition, the vast majority support one political party or another and therefore guarantee the votes for the candidates they support before the elections begin.

However, there are others that are the ones that define the elections and can be on one side or the other depending on many economic, political and social aspects of the country. These are the aforementioned swing states. In them, the greatest amount of resources and efforts are used by both political parties to garner the greatest number of votes possible that will allow them to obtain the 270 necessary to win the elections.

Below are the states with the number of votes they contribute to the US electoral colleges:

• California: 54 votes
• Texas: 40
• Florida: 30
• New York: 28
• Pennsylvania: 19
• Illinois: 19
• Ohio: 17
• Georgia: 16
• North Carolina: 16
• Michigan: 15th
• New Jersey: 14
• Virginia: 13
• Washington: 12
• Arizona: 11:XNUMX
• Massachusetts: 11
• Tennessee: 11
• Indiana: 11
• Missouri: 10
• Maryland: 10
• Minnesota: 10
• Colorado: 10:XNUMX
• Alabama: 9
• South Carolina: 9
• Kentucky: 8
• Louisiana: 8
• Oregon: 8
• Oklahoma: 7
• Connecticut: 7
• Wisconsin: 6
• Iowa: 6
• Arkansas: 6
• Kansas: 6
• Mississippi: 6
• Snow: 6
• Utah: 6
• Nebraska: 5th
• New Mexico: 5
• Hawaii: 4
• Idaho: 4
• Maine: 4
• Rhode Island: 4:XNUMX
• Montana: 4
• West Virginia: 4
• New Hampshire: 4
• AK: 3
• North Dakota: 3
• South Dakota: 3
• Delaware: 3
• District of Columbia: 3
• Vermont: 3
• Wyoming: 3rd

The presidential elections coincided with the renewal of 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate (1/3) and all the members of the House of Representatives, which are 438. Knowing the results of these elections will not be easy due to the vastness of the country, which means that a definitive result will not be known in a few days. This is influenced by the postal votes that must be verified very precisely for their legality and authorship.

The most accurate result will most likely be known tomorrow, November 6th, however, the official result may arrive in a few days.

States won by Donald Trump

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States won by Kamala Harris

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