The presidential election in the United States will obviously depend on the outcome of the vote in seven federal states, which are the main political battle ground between Vice President Kamala Harris, the candidate of the Democratic Party, and Donald Trump, the former head of the White House and the Republican candidate.
VOA states that because of this, presidential candidates are investing more time and money in campaigns in those states.
After a weekend of campaign inactivity, Trump and Harris are said to be heading to some of those key states this week.
Trump is scheduled to address members of the National Guard Association during their conference in Detroit today.
It will be his seventh visit this year to the state of Michigan, where he won the 2016 presidential election after a successful campaign.
However, four years later, he lost to Democrat Joe Biden in this state, preventing Trump’s re-election.
JD Vance, Trump’s running mate and senator from Ohio, will speak at a rally tomorrow in Big Rapids, Michigan.
Trump will be back in the state again on Thursday when he gives a speech at a steel mill in Potterville, where he plans to talk about the US economy, inflation and manufacturing.
After that, the Republican candidate for the White House will go to the neighboring state of Wisconsin, where he will address voters in a rally at the town hall in La Crosse.
On Friday, Trump plans to hold a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, before heading to Washington to address the conservative Mothers for Freedom rally in the capital.
Harris and her running mate Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota, begin campaigning in key states on Wednesday.
They will tour several cities in Georgia by bus, and the highlight of the tour will be a rally that Harris will hold in the city of Savannah on Thursday evening.
VOA recalls that Biden narrowly defeated Trump in that state in 2020 and thus became the first Democratic presidential candidate to triumph in Georgia since 1992.
This will be Harris’ seventh trip to Georgia this year and second stint in Savannah.
Even before last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where Harris accepted the party’s nomination, opinion polls showed her narrowly ahead of Trump.
After the convention, she was able to achieve, perhaps only temporarily, an additional electoral advantage.
Polling agencies report that she now leads nationally by two or three percentage points over Trump. VOA stresses that it is still crucial for both to win over voters in the four states where they will campaign this week, as well as in North Carolina on the Atlantic coast, as well as in Arizona and Nevada in the western US. .
It said seven key states are likely to be top travel destinations for both the presidential and vice presidential candidates ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
It is reminded that early voting in some federal states begins already in mid-September.
These seven states, where the outcome is still highly uncertain, play a disproportionately large role in the White House vote, since the president and vice president in the United States are not elected based on the most votes won at the national level.
Instead, electors who send all but two states to the Electoral College after the 50-state election will vote for Harris and Waltz or Trump and Vance.
The composition of the electoral college is determined based on the number of residents in a certain federal state, so not those with the largest population give the most electors.
VOA reports that polls in key states show that it is still too early to tell whether Trump or Harris will win there, while one of the two already has a near-decisive lead in the other 43 states.
A Washington Post poll showed Harris with a slim lead in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, while Trump leads pollsters in the four remaining key states.
It is recalled that in 2016 Trump had fewer votes at the federal level than the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, but he won the electoral college and became the president of the United States.
Where is Trump leading in the polls in key states, and where is Harris?
Trump:
Georgia
North Carolina
Arizona
Nevada
Harris:
Wisconsin
Michigan
Pennsylvania
