The Republican presidential candidate received 16 votes in North Carolina.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received 16 votes in North Carolina, Radio Liberty reports.
North Carolina, along with Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, are considered “trembling.” In total they give 93 votes. The largest and most important of these states is Pennsylvania, which has 19 electors.
Donald Trump received a total of 230 Electoral College votes to 205 for Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee.
The first candidate to receive 270 votes in the Electoral College will become the nation’s 47th president.
As you know, US presidential elections are indirect: Americans vote for electors – special people who, in December in Washington, vote for a candidate supported by voters.
There are only 538 voters Their number in each state is different and distributed in proportion to the population. The most states have the most electors: California has 54, Texas has 40. The fewest (three electors each) are in North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Vermont, Delaware, Alaska and the District of Columbia.
The winner of the popular vote in a particular state receives the votes of all the electoral votes from that state (there are two exceptions – Nebraska and Maine, where the number of electors is divided depending on the percentage of the vote ). In order to win, a candidate does not need to receive the votes of the majority of Americans in general or even win the majority of states – the main thing is to win by any margin in those states where the majority of the population lives .
In most states, the result can be predicted in advance because one candidate has a clear advantage. The outcome of the vote was decided by so-called “swing” states, where before voting began the candidates had approximately equal chances of winning.
Note that Trump trails Harris among female voters by 14 points. And women go to the polls more often than men.
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