New Delhi:
Two hours into the US election counting, Republican candidate Donald Trump and his Democrat opponent Kamala Harris are main in three and two swing states, respectively. Whereas Harris leads in Pennsylvania and Michigan, Trump is forward in Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina. Leads are usually not but in for the swing states of Nevada and Arizona.
Also called battleground states, swing states maintain the important thing to victory within the US election. These states have an almost equal degree of assist for each the Democrats and Republicans, and the election is received and misplaced in these states. This yr, the swing states are Pennsylvania, with 19 electoral faculty votes, Michigan (10), Georgia (16), Wisconsin (10), North Carolina (16), Nevada (6) and Arizona (11).
Each the previous President and the incumbent vice-president are pushing for the magic determine of 270 electoral faculty votes that may pave they technique to the Oval Workplace within the White Home. Based on the present traits, Trump is main with 177 votes, whereas Harris is at 99.
Based on exit polls, the state of democracy, financial system and abortion have been the important thing points on voters’ minds once they headed to ballot cubicles. A CBS Information ballot revealed that nearly six in 10 individuals ranked the state of democracy as their primary challenge, adopted by abortion, which was picked by 5 per cent of voters as an essential challenge. The financial system was a precedence challenge for one in ten.
A CNN exit ballot stated practically three-quarters of the citizens holds a destructive view of the way in which issues are within the US at present.