Seven states will be particularly scrutinized: Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. The latter state is particularly strategic. USA Today described Pennsylvania as the political “center of the universe” on Election Day.
Winning this state increases your chances of winning the presidential election by up to 90%, some observers estimate. It is no coincidence that last night Donald Trump and Kamala Harris were both in Pennsylvania to close their campaigns.
In Georgia, the vote is currently going very well. There is no particular queue in this state where early voting was massive. In downtown Atlanta, many voters were waiting for only one thing, for this campaign, which had everyone on edge, to end. A few false bomb threats were reported, but things quickly returned to normal.
>> The story of the RTS correspondents:
In Michigan, the city of Dearborn is home to the largest Muslim community in the country, whose vote could be decisive. Many have indicated that they would not vote for Kamala Harris due to the handling of the war in Gaza by the Biden/Harris administration. This could be enough to tip the scales in favor of Donald Trump.
“We expect a high rate of abstention from the Muslim community, even if there has been a surge in favor of Kamala Harris in the last 72 hours”, estimates in Forum David Sylvan, professor of political science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
>> David Sylvan’s interview in Forum:
According to him, African-American and Latino voters should also partly defect to the Democratic candidate. “But this could be offset by the vote of women, and particularly of Republicans,” specifies the researcher.
>> Also listen to the interview with Brett Bruen, former diplomat, Jordan David, correspondent in Washington, and Marc Fuhrmann, Swiss expatriate in Arizona. :
