Beyond the presidential election, Americans will also vote to renew Congress: 34 senatorial seats (out of 100) and the 435 seats in the House of Representatives are at stake.
In the upper house, senators are elected for six years. The Republicans hope to reverse the narrow Democratic majority.
The representatives serve a two-year term. The Democrats hope to reconquer this chamber, currently with a Republican majority.
The seven “swing states”, “key” or “pivot” states in French, are the keys to the election because they do not clearly lean towards one party or another. From Michigan to Arizona via Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are concentrating their final efforts there to snatch victory. In an extremely close election, the presidency risks being decided by a few tens of thousands of votes.
The Democratic candidate announced Sunday that she had voted in the election between her and Donald Trump. “I just filled out my mail-in ballot,” she said during a brief exchange with reporters in Detroit, Michigan, then adding: “my ballot is on its way to California.” his State of origin.
As during his entire campaign, Donald Trump was once again particularly virulent on Sunday. During a meeting in the key state of Pennsylvania, he once again assured that the 2020 election had been stolen from him. He also took the opportunity to attack journalists, accusing them several times of spreading false information. His diatribe against the media was particularly violent. Referring to the armored glazing now installed around him, after having been the victim of two assassination attempts, the Republican candidate said that to reach him “we would have to shoot through” the journalists, adding: “That doesn't bother me not. »
In order to avoid too big a final controversy, its teams then stepped up to delay. In a press release, Steven Cheung, communications director for the campaign, explained that his candidate would only have wanted to warn journalists of the threats they could receive.
Hello everyone. The American presidential campaign is coming to an end. Tomorrow Tuesday, American voters are called to the polls to elect their future president. And it is a particularly divided country which will have to choose between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to succeed Joe Biden in the White House.
So to not miss any of the latest campaign news and also the first results, the editorial staff 20 Minutes is mobilizing all week in Paris and with its correspondents in the United States to make you experience this election which will have repercussions on the entire planet.
