US Presidential Election 2024: Can Kamala Harris still win?

However, contempt claiming a “magnificent triumph for the American people”, the predetermination isn’t implicit yet. Although Trump leads with a bulk of 267 electoral votes compared to Harris’ 224, 270 are needed to triumph the election. Currently, the last results successful Nevada, Arizona, Alaska, Wisconsin and Michigan are yet to beryllium confirmed.

Although Trump hasn’t officially reached 270 electoral votes, it appears apt that helium volition triumph the predetermination and instrumentality for a 2nd word arsenic president, becoming the 2nd president successful past to service non-consecutive presumption aft Grover Cleveland successful the 1800s.

Trump won the electoral ballot successful Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania - 3 swing states wherever Harris besides had a beardown accidental of winning. Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin are besides plaything states some candidates volition beryllium hoping to win.

While the electoral ballot refers to votes formed by members of the Electoral College (there are a full of 538 disposable with 270 needed to win), the fashionable ballot describes the idiosyncratic votes made by immoderate qualifying voters. However, winning the fashionable ballot doesn’t needfully mean a campaigner volition triumph the election. For example, successful the 2016 predetermination Hillary Clinton won the fashionable ballot with implicit 65 cardinal votes compared to Trump’s astir 63 million, nevertheless Trump won 306 electoral votes - winning the predetermination implicit Clinton’s 232.

According to the Associated Press, arsenic it stands Trump is besides starring the fashionable vote, scoring implicit 69 cardinal votes implicit Harris, whose votes beryllium astatine conscionable nether 64 million.