Pennsylvania is widely seen as critical to either Ms Kamala Harris’ or Donald Trump’s chances of winning the White House.
A tiny fraction of the US populace in a handful of states will likely decide who becomes the next president.WASHINGTON - The winner of the US presidential election on Nov 5 will govern a nation of more than 330 million people, but the contest will almost certainly be decided by just tens of thousands of voters – a tiny fraction of the populace – in a handful of states.
Here is a closer look at why the US presidential race will be decided by a small subset of Americans:Unlike elections for other federal candidates and statewide offices, the presidential contest is not solely based on the popular vote. Instead, under a system known as the, the winning candidate in each state, as well as Washington, D.C., receives that state’s electoral votes, which are largely based on population.
If every state aside from the battlegrounds votes as expected, that would give Vice-President Harris 226 electoral votes and Trump 219, with the remaining 93 up for grabs.There are seven states that could swing either way on Nov 5: the Rust Belt trio of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and the Sun Belt quartet of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.
The race appears even closer than the 2020 contest. That year, a shift of only 43,000 votes in three states - less than 1/3 of a percentage point of all voters nationwide - from Mr Biden to Trump would have been enough for Trump to win reelection.The simplest answer is that the state has 19 electoral votes, more than any other battleground.
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