The last polling stations in each of the individual states will close at very different times, from 1 am on Wednesday, Italian time, until seven.
Tuesday evening at midnight the first states to close the polls will be Indiana and Kentucky, two central states where, however, in the more internal areas voting will close an hour later.
At one in the morning in Italy they will close the rest of the polls in Indiana and Kentucky and all the polls in South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and Georgia. The state to keep an eye on will above all be the last one.
Between 1:30 and 2 Italian time Polls will close in Ohio, West Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Washington DC and especially North Carolina and Pennsylvania , two of the 7 swing states.
Between 3 and 4 on Wednesday morning polls will close in many other states: those to follow most carefully will be Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona (at 3) and Nevada (at 4).
A first indication of how Harris and Trump will fare in Michigan and Wisconsin could be obtained from Pennsylvania, where the polls will close an hour early, i.e. at 2 in the morning; more or less the same reasoning can be made for Georgia, where they will close at one o’clock, compared to Arizona and Nevada, two other states that tend to vote in a similar way, although not always and not everywhere.
A good part of these arguments will fail if Harris and Trump are really very close, as several polls seem to say, in all the swing states: in that case it could take days to determine the winner of these elections, exactly as happened in 2020 when the US media awarded the victory (later also certified by the counting of the final votes) to Joe Biden, five days after the polls closed.
It is Pennsylvania, the most important of the swing states, where four years ago Joe Biden won by a very narrow margin
