On November 5, Americans will go to the polls. It will be an exciting battle between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Follow all updates here.
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The 2024 American elections will culminate on November 5. We are entering the final hours of an incredibly exciting campaign. Can former President Donald Trump return to the White House or can Vice President Kamala Harris make it her home for the next four years?
This campaign for the American presidency pits two radically different personalities, separated by almost two decades in age. On the one hand, we have the current Democratic vice president, who took over for aging President Joe Biden last July. Kamala Harris, 60, could become the first woman to lead the world’s largest economic and military power.
On the other side is former Republican President Donald Trump, 78 years old, who has made a spectacular political comeback after leaving the White House in 2021 in a chaotic context. He escaped two impeachment proceedings and was convicted by a judge. This campaign was peppered with surprising twists, not least two assassination attempts on the septuagenarian.
Seven swing states decide their fate
Both rivals appear confident about their victory. In reality, however, the race is so close that only a few tens of thousands of votes could determine the outcome. The results in the polls are so close that they do not even exceed the margin of error.
The precious votes must mainly be won in the seven swing states, where both presidential candidates have had busy weeks of campaigning. Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been spent on campaigns in those battleground states. The American electoral system is structured in such a way that the candidate with the most votes behind his or her name does not necessarily win the election.
In the United States, the 538 electoral votes determine who wins. The candidate who receives more than 270 electoral votes will go to the White House. With 19, Pennsylvania has the most electoral votes of the seven swing states. Logically, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will therefore use their last strength in Pennsylvania, in a tense and nerve-wracking final phase of the campaign. The vice president, former prosecutor and later senator from California, born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, will visit Scranton, Joe Biden’s birthplace, and the state’s two most important cities, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
During this final phase, she is expected to receive support from Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, in addition to support from other celebrities such as Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Lopez and basketball superstar LeBron James. Taylor Swift previously expressed her support.
Sharper rhetoric by Donald Trump
After an initial rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, Donald Trump heads to Reading and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to end his marathon day in Grand Rapids, Michigan. These are locations where the former real estate magnate will paint a picture of a country in decline, overrun by millions of criminal illegal immigrants, and economically and morally bankrupt under the influence of ‘domestic enemies’.
The Republican has recently stepped up his rhetoric, using offensive terms to describe his opponent in hopes of appealing to young men.
Nearly 80 million Americans, including Kamala Harris and current President Joe Biden, have already cast their ballots early, out of a total of 244 million voters.
The presidential election is creating tension not only over the outcome, but also over its aftermath, as Donald Trump, who never acknowledged his defeat in 2020 and whose supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, has already begun to undermine the integrity of voting procedures. to cast doubt.
