The latest counts in the State of Virginia They show a very close result between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The two contenders remain in limbo before the first elections in a key state for access to the presidency of the United States.
Virginia, with 13 electoral votescould be a decisive state if Donald Trump manages to win. The same would happen with Pennsylvania, with 19 electoral votes, or with Ohio with 17. Of the two Virginias, for now, the Republican Party is victorious in West Virginia, where the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and governor of state Sen. Jim Justice also won the seat vacated by independent former Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.
Trump’s victory in WV He gave the Republican four electoral votes and now has 23 throughout the evening, en route to the 270 needed for final victory. The former North American president had already won victory in this state four years ago. The by-elections to the Senate, which overlap with the presidential elections, will renew a third of the composition of the upper house by bringing into play 34 seats out of the 100 that make it up.
Trump maintains a narrow but significant lead in five states crucial: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, while Harris leads by equally tight margins in Wisconsin and Michigan. This distribution is reflected in the current Electoral College projection, where Trump has 287 votes to Harris’s 251, knowing that 270 are needed to win the presidency.
The situation is so volatile that any minimal change in these states could radically alter the final outcome, keeping campaign teams and the entire nation in suspense until the final vote is counted.
As for Pennsylvania This state has always taken center stage in presidential campaigns, but it has not always been considered a battleground state. Traditionally, this is part of what is considered the Blue wall (blue wall), color with which Democrats are identified, alongside Wisconsin and Michigan. Instead, in 2016, former President Donald Trump won Pennsylvania by breaking the Democratic wall. In 2020, President Joe Biden won this state with just over 1% of voters. It must be said that this state has mainly supported Democratic candidates since 1992, with the exception of 2016, the year when Donald Trump won.
