A elector successful a large plaything authorities has gone viral aft telling a newsman helium voted for Kamala Harris – acknowledgment to his girlfriend.
Bryan Flores, from Charlotte, North Carolina, told CNN helium wasn’t going to ballot astatine all, but came down to a polling presumption aft his woman ‘threatened to interruption up with him’.
He said: ‘My woman was blowing up my phone telling maine to spell vote, and if I didn’t, she was going to interruption up with me.’
After being asked if his spouse was ‘seriously’ going to divided with him, Mr Flores joked: ‘No, I made that up.’
Mr Flores said helium voted for Biden successful 2020 but hadn’t planned to spell ballot contiguous until his woman asked him to.
‘I was going to enactment home, devour immoderate chips oregon something,’ helium said.
As polls adjacent crossed the US, millions await the result of 1 of the most intimately watched statesmanlike elections in caller history.
So acold successful this year’s election, the states with the largest electoral votes Kamala Harris has won includes New York, Massachusetts and Maryland.
She has besides won Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and Delaware.
Meanwhile Donald Trump has won a fig of states, with the ones with the astir magnitude of electoral votes being Texas, Florida, and Tennessee.
But not each states person finished counting capable votes to state who has won.
Often a wide victor is known wrong hours of the polls closing, but it tin besides instrumentality weeks for an authoritative tally to beryllium released, arsenic each authorities is near to transportation retired their ain counting procedures.
Kamala Harris tin number connected 226 Electoral votes this predetermination from states that reliably ballot Democratic oregon thin Democratic, portion Trump tin number connected 219 Electoral votes to spell his way, according to Al Jazeera.
That means Harris needs to prime up 44 much votes to scope the 270 threshold, portion Trump needs 51 more.
It’s important to retrieve the interaction of plaything states successful this predetermination and what that could mean for the results. The 7 ‘swing states’ unneurotic clasp 93 Electoral votes.
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