DECRYPTION – Although small, there is a probability that the two candidates each obtain 269 electors.
Rarely has an American presidential election been so uncertain. A few days before the election, the suspense remains, according to the latest polls which give Donald Trump and Kamala Harris neck and neck. After months of intense campaigns, marked by the withdrawal of Joe Biden and the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, neither of the two candidates appears to be gaining the advantage in this race for the White House.
The former president and the current vice-president must both win the majority of the electoral college made up of 538 voters to hope to access the supreme office. But in two crazy scenarios, neither candidate could manage to win a majority of 270 voters.
The first scenario, improbable for the 2024 election after the defection of Robert Kennedy, the most serious outsider, would see a third party candidate win the major voters in one of the 50 American states, preventing both Trump and Harris from reaching…
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