New Delhi:
Two hours into the US election counting, Republican candidate Donald Trump and his Democrat opponent Kamala Harris are main in 4 and two swing states, respectively. Whereas Harris leads in Arizona and Michigan, Trump is forward in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina. Leads are usually not but in for the swing states of Nevada.
Also referred to as battleground states, swing states maintain the important thing to victory within the US election. These states have a virtually equal degree of assist for each the Democrats and Republicans, and the election is received and misplaced in these states. This 12 months, the swing states are Pennsylvania, with 19 electoral school 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 school votes that may pave they strategy to the Oval Workplace within the White Home. Based on the present developments, Trump is main with 177 votes, whereas Harris is at 99.
Based on exit polls, the state of democracy, economic system and abortion have been the important thing points on voters’ minds after they headed to ballot cubicles. A CBS Information ballot revealed that nearly six in 10 folks ranked the state of democracy as their primary difficulty, adopted by abortion, which was picked by 5 per cent of voters as an necessary difficulty. The economic system was a precedence difficulty for one in ten.
A CNN exit ballot stated practically three-quarters of the voters holds a detrimental view of the way in which issues are within the US in the present day.