These are the final hours of a breathtaking campaign for the White House: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are on stage for their final electoral rallies, just before a vote with crucial issues for the United States and the rest of the world. This American presidential election sees two radically opposed personalities, separated by almost two decades, confront each other.
On one side, the current Democratic vice-president, who in July replaced aging leader Joe Biden at short notice. Kamala Harris, 60, can become on Tuesday the first woman to lead the largest economic and military power on the planet. On the other, former President Donald Trump, 78, author of a spectacular political comeback after leaving the White House in 2021 in a chaotic context, having escaped two impeachment procedures and having been convicted in court.
Peppered with unimaginable twists and turns, first and foremost two assassination attempts targeting Donald Trump, this campaign was also marked by all the outbidding in a fractured country. Each of the two rivals says they are confident in their victory. But, in reality, the competition is so close that only a few tens of thousands of votes could decide the outcome of the election. The most valuable votes are to be won in seven so-called pivotal states, which the two contenders for the White House have been traveling non-stop for weeks.
The United States, a federal country, has a system of indirect universal suffrage, crowning the candidate who manages to gather a majority of the 538 electors, or at least 270.
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