Ahead of Harris in the last remaining place, Arizona
Donald Trump, the president-elect of the 47th United States president, has also won in Nevada, a southern battleground state.
NBC News reported on the 8th (local time) that President-elect Trump secured an additional 6 electoral votes by winning 50.8% of the vote in Nevada. According to the AP and New York Times (NYT) tallies, with 93% of the votes counted, President-elect Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris with about 51% of the vote compared to her approximately 47%.
With this, President-elect Trump has won in 6 out of the '7 major battleground states' identified as decisive in this election so far. Early in the counting, President-elect Trump secured the 'Sun Belt' battleground states of Georgia and North Carolina, and then clinched victories in key battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, known as the 'Blue Wall,' confirming his presidential victory.
In the last battleground state, Arizona, where counting is still ongoing, President-elect Trump is leading Vice President Harris with 52% of the vote to her 47%. Counting in Arizona is 76% complete. If this continues, President-elect Trump is expected to sweep all 7 battleground states, securing 312 electoral votes for a decisive victory. The U.S. presidential election uses a winner-takes-all system where the candidate who obtains a majority (270) of the 538 electoral votes, distributed proportionally by population across 50 states and Washington D.C., is elected.
Before the election, predictions both inside and outside the U.S. largely anticipated a fierce contest between President-elect Trump and Vice President Harris in the closely contested battleground states, but the results so far show a solidifying unilateral advantage for President-elect Trump.
Previously, in the 2016 presidential election when Trump was first elected president, he lost the nationwide popular vote to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton but secured 304 electoral votes to enter the White House. However, this time he is comfortably ahead in the popular vote as well, with 50.7% compared to former Vice President Harris’s 47.7%. The last time a Republican candidate won both the electoral college and the popular vote was in 2004 with former President George W. Bush.
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