When is the US presidential election 2024? Polls show Harris leads Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan

According to Financial Times polling, Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump by conscionable 1 percent constituent nationally. However, since the Electoral College determines the winner, nationwide polling is by nary means definitive successful the statesmanlike election.

In 2016, contempt Hillary Clinton receiving a overmuch larger fig of votes nationwide, Mr Trump won much of the pivotal plaything states, and therefore, winning the election. 

Over 57.5 cardinal Americans person formed ballots, according to the University of Florida Election Lab. It is much than one-third of the full fig of radical who voted in the 2020 elections.

At a rally successful Green Bay, Wisconsin, Republican campaigner Mr Trump was spotted wearing an orangish hi-vis vest pursuing a run stunt aboard a garbage truck. He past criticised Democrats for Joe Biden's remarks astir "garbage", congratulated sanitation workers, and pledged to support women "whether they similar it oregon not".

Meanwhile, Ms Harris made an entreaty to first-time voters successful different parts of Wisconsin and said that clime change, weapon control, and entree to termination were “not political”, adding: “This is your lived experience.” Her code comes conscionable aft a caller CNN canvass enactment her six points up of Mr Trump successful Wisconsin and Michigan.

The 2024 US predetermination volition beryllium held connected Tuesday, November 5.  The victor volition service a four-year word successful the White House, starting successful January 2025.

It is imaginable the campaigner with the astir votes volition not beryllium the winner.

This is due to the fact that the president and vice president are not chosen straight by the voters but by the electoral college.

Rather than voting straight for a candidate, voters successful each authorities prime a radical of electors who are pledged to enactment that candidate. Each authorities has respective electors adjacent to its full fig of senators and representatives successful Congress, resulting successful 538 electors nationwide.

To triumph the presidency, a campaigner indispensable unafraid a bulk of the electoral votes — astatine slightest 270. After the election, the electors convene successful their respective authorities capitals to formed their votes for president and vice president, which are past formally counted by Congress successful a associated session.

This strategy highlights the value of idiosyncratic states successful the predetermination process, arsenic the allocation of electors tin impact run strategies and predetermination outcomes.

The 2024 predetermination volition apt travel down to 7 cardinal battleground states: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada.