Here we are ! After months of twists and turns and a particularly bitter campaign between the two camps, the American presidential election takes place this Tuesday. Who, Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump, will succeed Joe Biden in the Oval Office? Impossible to say at the moment, the polls are far too close.
While waiting for the outcome of this political marathon, we have compiled the latest information for you in our “This is America”.
News of the day
That's it, America is voting. And today will decide whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will enter the White House, at the end of a campaign of incredible tension, undecided until the last minute. On this big day, polling stations will open at 6 a.m. (local time) on the east coast of the United States and millions of people will add their votes to the more than 80 million ballots already cast early or sent by mail. postal.
It is impossible to know whether it will take hours or days of counting to decide between the 60-year-old Democratic vice-president and the 78-year-old former Republican leader. Two apparently irreconcilable Americas have flocked to their meetings in recent weeks, each camp convinced that the other will lead the country to disaster.
Both camps have already initiated dozens of legal actions, while two out of three Americans fear an eruption of violence after the election.
Punchline of the day
« This could be one of the closest elections in history. Every voice counts. » »
And it was Kamala Harris who said it. This Monday during her last major campaign rally and a few hours before the opening of polling stations in the United States, the vice-president and Democratic candidate also assured that America had “the possibility of finally turning the page on 'a decade of political project guided by fear and division'. “We have had enough,” she added without naming the person this message is targeting, her Republican rival Donald Trump.
The number of the day
93 millions. According to a study by Visibrain, the American presidential election excites public opinion. In seven days, more than 93 million messages were published on this subject on social networks. That is… 154 messages per second. The monitoring platform notes that this is 86% more than in 2020. A trend of excitement that goes beyond American borders: the French post three times more on this subject than four years ago.
All our information on the American presidential election
The survey point
The latest polls give the two adversaries almost tied in the seven crucial states (the famous “swing states”), those which, in this indirect vote, will give Harris or Trump the sufficient number of electors to reach the threshold 270 out of 538, synonymous with victory. The national trend gives the Democrat a head start. A mini length: 48% of the votes for Kamala Harris against 46.8% for Donald Trump.
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Note that Dixville Notch, the “first in the Nation” or the first village to vote in the United States, has already voted and counted its votes. The results in this remote New Hampshire hamlet? Three votes went to Kamala Harris and three votes to Donald Trump, a perfect tie. Enough to illustrate once again how close this election is…
What are the two candidates doing this Tuesday?
Kamala Harris said she held her election night at her former university, the historically black Howard Institution, in Washington. As for Donald Trump, he will be in Palm Beach, Florida, his state of residence. The city was also barricaded in anticipation of the arrival of the Republican candidate.
