Trump wins 3 battleground states, needs 4 more electoral votes to win presidency: CNN projects

Ahram Online , Wednesday 6 Nov 2024

Former US President Donald Trump will win the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, CNN projects, shrinking Kamala Harris’ possible paths to victory.

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(COMBO) A combination of pictures shows US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and US former President Donald Trump.AFP

 

According to CNN projections, Trump has 266 electoral votes and Harris has 188 electoral votes. That means Trump only needs to win four more electoral votes to win the presidency.

CNN has projected that Trump will win several key battleground states — including North Carolina, Georgia, and more pivotally, Pennsylvania.

There are 19 electoral votes at stake in Pennsylvania.

It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election. 

President Joe Biden Pennsylvania, flipped the state in 2020, winning by just over 80,000 votes.

In 2016, Trump became the first Republican to win Pennsylvania since George H.W. Bush in 1988, carrying the state by just over 44,000 votes. 

Pennsylvania is the most important battleground state of the 2024 election.

Harris and Trump have made the commonwealth’s electoral votes central to their respective paths to victory.

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