US election 2024: Trump on course to victory
Former US president Donald Trump looks likely to beat Vice President Kamala Harris after winning two of seven battleground states and is currently leading in the other five
Updated on Wednesday at 7:18am (CET)
Donald Trump has opened a clear path to victory in the US presidential election, winning two of the seven battleground states and leading in the other five.
At daybreak on Wednesday (Central European Time), major TV networks in the US called it for Trump in North Carolina and Georgia. The latter was a crucial flip for Trump since outgoing US President Joe Biden had managed to win there in 2020 by a mere 11,000 votes.
In the other five battleground states – Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada – vote counting is still underway but Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Meanwhile, Harris’s campaign said the vice president will not be speaking as yet, a sign that not all is well in the Democratic camp. Election pundits believe Harris’s only hope for victory is securing the Blue Wall in the north east, although Trump is leading comfortably in all three states – Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Pennsylvania is a must-win for Harris but with 92% of the vote counted, she is trailing Trump by more than three points, or more than 200,000 votes. Pennsylvania was won by Biden in 2020 but in key urban areas where the strength of the Democratic vote lies, Harris appears to have underperformed the sitting president.
Trump’s slimmest lead is in Arizona in the south west with a difference that is less than a percentage point.
If Trump wins the presidency, he will only be the second US president in history to win a second non-consecutive term in office.
Meanwhile, in other electoral races, the Republicans are set to control the US Senate.
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