US Swing States: Trump Wins Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ahead In All Others
The US presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is no more tightly contested, as Trump has swept majority of key states.
The US presidential race between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump is clearly taking the former President closer to completing a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House.
Donald Trump has already taken Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, among the seven swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and North Carolina.
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Polls for weeks have shown a razor-thin race between Harris and Trump, who would be the oldest president at the time of inauguration, the first felon president and only the second to serve non-consecutive terms. Harris made a late, dramatic entrance into the race when President Joe Biden dropped out in July, while Trump — twice impeached while president — has since ridden out two assassination attempts and a criminal conviction.
The election is being watched closely around the world including in the war zones of Ukraine and the Middle East.
THE GAME OF SWING STATES IN US ELECTION 2024
NORTH CAROLINA
Donald Trump has won North Carolina after receiving the state’s 16 electoral votes. Trump also won the state in 2016 and 2020, but Democrats had been optimistic they could reverse previous outcomes with campaign spending, canvassing and Harris rallies.
Trump blitzed North Carolina in the final days of the campaign, stopping in four cities over four days and finishing his North Carolina campaign in Raleigh on Monday.
Earlier projections in the swing state suggested Trump was leading by 0.9 points and was ahead 48 to 49 per cent according to Emerson, 47 to 29 per cent according to Morning Consult and 47 to 48 per cent as per YouGov.
GEORGIA
Trump has won Georgia too, confirming his growing momentum as he targets a return to power that would send shockwaves around the world. Joe Biden narrowly carried Georgia in 2020, but Republicans have won every other Georgia presidential vote since 1996. Trump tried to overturn his 2020 loss in Georgia, setting off a political and legal struggle that led to his indictment in the state.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were both seeking to win over Black voters in the crucial southern state, its largest minority voting bloc, in a race that could be decided by razor-thin margins. The Democratic bastion, which includes most of the capital Atlanta, has been crucial in deciding who wins the southern state — and its coveted 16 electoral college votes. Black voters traditionally lean heavily Democratic, but to win the tight election race, Harris needs them to turn out in force.
PENNSYLVANIA
Donald Trump has won Pennsylvania, defeating Harris in the critical battleground state. Both candidates campaigned vigorously in the state, visiting it more often than any other. Trump won Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes four years after Democrat Joe Biden carried the state, flipping it from Trump’s column in 2016 on his way to capturing the “blue wall." No Democrat has won the White House without also winning Pennsylvania since 1948.
ARIZONA
Trump had lost in Arizona in 2020, by wafer-thin 10,500 votes — the first Republican defeat since 1996. Some supporters were convinced it was a fix, and at the 2022 midterm elections, armed men loomed over ballot boxes, ostensibly to make sure nothing was amiss.
According to Times/Siena Trump is up 2.2 points in FiveThirtyEight average, and is leading by 45 to 49 per cent, as per Emerson, he is leading by 48 to 50 per cent, and according to YouGov, Trump is leading by 47 to 48 per cent.
NEVADA
In Nevada, Trump is up by 0.3 points in the 538 average, but the Times/Siena poll shows Harris leading 49 to 46 per cent and YouGov has Harris up 48 to 47 per cent, while Emerson shows a tie at 48 per cent.
MICHIGAN
Harris is leading by one point, 48 to 50 per cent in Emerson’s polling, 48 to 49 per cent in Morning Consult’s survey and 45 to 47 per cent according to YouGov, but they’re tied at 47 per cent in the New York Times/Siena survey.
WISCONSIN
In Wisconsin, Harris is up by 1.1 points per FiveThirtyEight, and she leads Trump by 45 to 48 per cent according to YouGov and 47 to 49 per cent as per Times/Siena, but they’re tied at 49 per cent in Emerson’s polling, and Morning Consult has a roughly one-point Trump lead, Forbes said.
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