Wednesday 04 November 2020
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The Battleground States live up to their name: Donald Trump and Joe Biden are in a close race in the hard-fought US states. According to media reports, Trump wins victory in the key state of Florida, Biden wins Minnesota.
According to TV broadcasters, US President Donald Trump won the important swing states of Florida and Ohio in the presidential election. Fox News, NBC and CNN declared the incumbent the winner in the key state of Florida, which is one of the most contested states with 29 voters. It is an important stage win for Trump. Without the state, his path to the 270 voters necessary for victory would have been extremely difficult. Ohio, with 18 voters, is also reportedly going to Trump. The basics are voter surveys and initial vote counts. It is a major achievement for the Republican candidate in the running for re-election.
According to media reports, the Democratic challenger Joe Biden emerges as the winner in Swing State Minnesota. This is traditionally known as the so-called battleground state, in which a victory is neither safe for the Republicans nor the Democrats. In 2016, the Democrat Hillary Clinton was able to secure the ten votes of the electorate there with a narrow lead over Trump.
In addition, according to media reports, the Republican candidate Trump won in the states of Indiana and Kentucky as expected. As expected, several broadcasters proclaimed the incumbent winner in the two conservative states in the Midwest.
Indiana (eleven voters) was the first state to declare a winner. Kentucky followed shortly afterwards, giving Trump the votes of eight other voters. Trump was also well ahead in Kentucky in 2016. In addition, according to CNN, the US president brought in the states of Mississippi, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, South and North Dakota and West Virginia and thus a total of 74 other electors.
Biden wins in Vermont
Meanwhile, as expected, Biden has also won the state of Vermont. The small state in the northeast with three voters has been going to the Democrats for decades. Hillary Clinton was there in 2016 with more than 25 percentage points ahead of the election winner Donald Trump. Recent polls saw Democrats Biden clearly in the lead there.
In addition, according to CNN predictions, Biden won – without any surprises – in California, Washington State, Oregon, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Colorado, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, DC, Maryland and Massachusetts. This brought a total of 169 more voters.
In the US elections, polling stations in Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia also closed completely. In large parts of Florida, voters had the opportunity to cast their vote at 1 a.m. German time on Wednesday. In many parts of the United States, queues had formed in front of the polling stations on Tuesday election day. Voters who were waiting to close the polling stations were still allowed to cast their votes.
Other swing states will follow
In the race between Trump and Biden, the focus continues to be on the particularly hotly contested states, in which the majorities keep switching between Democrats and Republicans. In addition to Ohio, the most important swing states include Florida, where 29 voters are awarded the winner, Pennsylvania (20) and North Carolina (15). But polls also indicated a head-to-head race in Texas. The populous southern state with 38 voters has been going to Republicans for decades. In polls, Trump was only very slightly ahead of Biden. In these states the polling stations close later.
The electorate elects the US President and Vice President on behalf of the American people. In the past presidential elections, the winner was usually decided on election night, this time it could take a lot longer. Experts assume that because of the corona pandemic, significantly more people voted by postal vote.
The composition of the US Congress was voted on at the same time as the presidential election. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and around a third of the 100 seats in the Senate were up for election. There were also many referendums in the states.
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