As the U.S. presidential campaign between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris heats up ahead of Election Day on November 5, the swing states are once again called upon to play king or queen of the election. Elon Musk, a strong supporter of Donald Trump, has understood this to the point of trying to tip the balance in his champion’s favor thanks to a highly contested lottery.
There are seven of them.
They are Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia.
In all, seven undecided states or swing states – out of the 50 in the country – in the race for the White House, which could tip the American presidential election on November 5 one way or the other.
In these more or less remote parts of America, the candidates inveigh each other via tweets and interposed communication operations in an attempt to convert each Swing State into an electoral stronghold for their own camp. So, when Joe Biden’s vice-president, Kamala Harris, wrote on a visit to Georgia that Donald Trump was “exhausted, unstable and unfit to be President of the United States”, the impulsive Republican candidate with the blonde quiff attacked the Democratic candidate on her CV, disputing her student job at Mcdonald’s and staging himself, apron and cap on, serving fries and hamburgers to incredulous customers in Feasterville, Pennsylvania.
It has to be said that the American electoral ballot is atypical for a Westerner. All you need to win the presidential nomination is 270 electoral votes, whereas winning the majority of votes is of little importance. Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, X and Space X (among others) is also trying to sway the results by setting up a lottery, the legality of which is open to question, aimed at residents of the key states in this election.
Winner Takes It All
Who will win the White House, Donald Trump or Kamala Harris?
The United States is about to elect its 47th president, or even its first president since Joe Biden withdrew from the race in July for health reasons, in favor of his vice-president. A late entry into the race, given that Donald Trump made his candidacy official on November 15, 2022.
But in the United States, more than anywhere else, to snatch victory, you need to win enough states for the majority of electors, in this case 270.
The Electoral College, a legacy of the founding fathers of the United States of America, established in the Constitution of 1787, is still in force, whereas it has been totally or partially repealed elsewhere. The last country to abolish it was Argentina in 1994. Under this system, the President of the United States is elected by indirect suffrage.
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