In a new poll on the US presidential election, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is well ahead of her Republican opponent Donald Trump in two particularly important states. According to the survey published on Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, Harris was Pennsylvania at 51 percent of the votes, while Trump received 45 percent. In Michigan The relationship was therefore 50 to 45 percent.
The survey was after the TV duel of the two candidates on September 10, which Harris was generally believed to have won. In Pennsylvania, the Democrat improved by three percentage points compared to the August survey by the same institute. In the state of Wisconsin, the survey showed a closer picture: There, Harris received 48 percent of the vote, while Trump received 47 percent.
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are part of the group of seven US stateswhere the race is particularly close. According to a mix of polls from the website realclearpolitics, Trump is narrowly ahead in the states of Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina, while in the seventh state, Nevada, Harris is leading by a razor-thin margin.
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Pennsylvania is particularly contested because this state gives a candidate more electoral votes than any of the other six statesThe TV debate took place in the northeastern state, and on July 13, the assassination attempt on Trump was carried out in the small town of Butler, in which the 78-year-old was slightly injured.
The US president is not elected directly, but by an electoral college to which the states send their representatives. A majority of 270 of the 538 electoral votes is needed to win the election. The all-or-nothing rule applies in almost all states, so the winner gets all the electoral votes.
In most states, there is a clear majority, so there is no doubt whether they will vote for Harris or Trump. As with this year’s election on November 5, the outcome often depends on just a handful of states, and in some cases just a few tens of thousands of votes make the decisive difference. (AFP)
