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Republican candidate Donald Trump secured the electoral college after winning Wisconsin state over Kamala Harris to become the 47th President of the United States.
According to the latest trends, Trump has won three of seven key swing states and is leading in three more, giving him a significant advantage over Democrat Kamala Harris in the highly watched US presidential election.
The seven key swing states — Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, and Nevada — are critical because they lack stable Democratic or Republican dominance, frequently deciding the outcome of the election.
“We’ve achieved the most incredible political thing,” Trump said in an address at his campaign headquarters early Wednesday, proclaiming a “political victory that our country has never seen before.”
Trump narrowly won North Carolina (2,852,981 votes to Harris’ 2,676,410) and Georgia (2,643,396 votes to Harris’ 2,528,271). He also won Pennsylvania, but he fell short by three electoral votes in winning the presidency, as per media reports.
He could easily win the election for the White House by winning any other swing state.
To secure the requisite electoral votes, Trump may win Pennsylvania or a combination of Michigan and Wisconsin. Other possible paths to victory include combinations of Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada.
The fight has heated up in the so-called “Blue Wall” states — Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — which were typically Democratic strongholds but switched to Trump in 2016, helping to his victory over Hillary Clinton.
Michigan and Pennsylvania have 16 electoral college votes each, making them important targets.
To win the president, either contender must receive 271 out of 538 electoral college votes. Over 82 million Americans voted before Election Day, either in person at early voting centers or by mail — a turnout that exceeded 51% of the 158 million votes cast in 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Harris and Trump’s campaigns closed with rallies in Pennsylvania and Michigan, both key states. Unlike others, these swing states are neither solidly Democratic nor Republican, allowing them to swing between the two and earning them the nickname Swing States.
In 2020, Joe Biden won all of these states except North Carolina to cement his triumph over Trump.
Source:IANS
