The main world power goes to presidential elections this Tuesday to choose between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The latest polls show a close fight that will end up being resolved in only seven key states. Final results may not be in this Tuesday night.
What you need to know now:
📌 United States chooses this Tuesday president, vice president, the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate
📌 It is a working day and voting is not mandatory so 78 million people have already cast their vote in advance
📌 The presidential election is not direct, by popular vote, but what is elected are delegates to the Electoral College and The one who gets 270 or more delegates to the Electoral College wins.
📌 Most States are assured for one candidate or another and The fight is reduced to seven states still undecided: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
📌 The results They would meet after midnight in Argentina or, if the fight is very close, in the next few hours, or maybe days.
📌 Read the dossier: What is at stake in the United States elections
11:15 hs
Abortion initiatives will be voted on in 10 states
Along with the presidential elections this Tuesday ten states will also vote on various initiatives on the right to abortion. Let us remember that In the United States the right to abortion is not law but depended on a court ruling known as “Roe v. Wade” that It was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022.
That is to say that from that moment each state has its own laws which allowed abortion to become totally illegal in some states and in others it has been restricted to the maximum.
This has been a central theme in Kamala Harris’ campaign, which saw the percentage of voters among women increase in all polls.
Most of State initiatives up for a vote today would restore protections for abortion access that were in effect under the “Roe vs. Wade” ruling.
In the states of Arizona, Florida, Montana, Nevada, Colorado, South Dakota, Missouri, New York and Maryland The initiatives will seek measures to provide state constitutional rights to abortion, while in the case of Nebraska There will be two ballots, one to provide a state right to abortion and another to limit abortion after the first trimester. In the case of New York, the goal is to expand the state’s anti-discrimination laws to include reproductive health protections.
09:20 hs
Voting centers begin to open
The United States has different time zones in which voting centers open and close on a staggered basis.
At the moment, most of the centers have opened in the eastern region of the country: Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, West Virginia, Vermont, Delaware, Washington DC , Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Starting at 8 a.m. Eastern time in the United States (10 a.m. in Argentina), the voting centers open in the center of the country: Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin.
Between 9 and 10 in the morning Eastern Time in the United States (12 noon in Argentina), the rest of the voting centers in the states on the west coast and Alaska finish opening.
08:40
What is voted, how is it voted and at what time will the next president of the United States be known?
The surveys are very even. How is the result defined and what can happen?
How many people vote, what is the electoral system like, how do the candidates arrive and at what time will the winner be known?
Everything you need to know about the elections read here
08:30
Harris vs Trump: these are the latest polls before the vote
The United States elects its next president this Tuesday between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris. The polls are very even and the election will end up being defined in only seven key states in which there is still no solid winner. Here the latest polls and which states to follow on Tuesday night.
Read all the surveys here
08:05 hs
Trump vs Harris: how the American electorate is divided
A Reuters poll of 14,000 cases surveyed current preferences among women, men, African Americans and Hispanics, of various socioeconomic and educational levels, and compared them with a similar poll from the last election in 2020. We present some of the main results here.
07:20 hs
What are swing states and why are they so important?
The “swing states” are key states in the United States presidential elections due to their ability to lean towards one party or another, whether Democratic or Republican, in different elections. These states are crucial because they do not have a fixed political trend, meaning they can decide the outcome of a presidential election.
In this election there are seven swing states and the election will be defined in them tonight: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona.
Read more
07:10 hs
Elections in the United States: the myth of the “most perfect democracy in the world”
The American electoral system was designed to guarantee bipartisan alternation of Democrats and Republicans. We interviewed two specialists to understand how a system works where the election is not direct, where there are countless restrictions and where the winning candidate may have obtained fewer votes than his opponent. Continue reading here.
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