The Americans have chosen. The provisional results of the American presidential election announce Republican candidate Donald Trump in the lead. For Mathieu Gallard, research director at Ipsos, author of the book “ The United States on the brink of civil war? » (Éditions de l'Aube, 2024), there is no longer any reversal possible. It analyzes for West France the results of the vote.
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Is Donald Trump right to claim victory, is a turnaround still possible?
Mathieu Galard: Very clearly, he is extremely well positioned, he is in the lead in almost all swing states where he has a relatively solid lead which means that, with the few ballots remaining to be counted, it should not be enough to reverse the trend. So a turnaround seems extremely unlikely.
Are these results the result of an underperformance of the Democrats or an outperformance of Donald Trump?
We don't have all the national results yet, there are still a lot of votes to count, but it will be very close in terms of votes. And then in the swing stateseven if it's a little less tight than…
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