Vice President Kamala Harris is leading Former President Donald Trump in the majority of the national polls, yet they remain neck and neck in key swing states.
The seven swing states , Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, hold keys to the White House. All of those states have populations that are closely divided politically, so every vote really does count and election outcomes have swung back and forth between democratic and republican wins.
But it’s important to note, that when Americans vote for president they’re not actually voting directly for the candidate, they’re voting for a group of electors. Each state has a set number of electors, based on the state’s population size, andsimilar to a winner-takes-all system,Regardless, to win the White House a candidate must receive 270 electoral votes, out of 538. If neither candidate secures 270 the House of Representatives steps in, and it’s only happened twice – in 1801 and 1825.
According to the Pew Research Center, Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to support moving to a popular vote system for presidential elections , and that was on full display in 2016 when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but still lost the election to Donald Trump because he won the electoral college.
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