The US presidential candidate from the Republican Party Donald Trump won in the states of the Middle West – Indiana and Kentukka, and his rival from the Democratic Party Kamal Harris, in Vermont, which was the first victory in the States, reports Associated the press.
After the closing of polling stations in the key state of Georgia, as well as in Indiana, Kentukki, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia, Trump received 19 votes of electors against three from Harris.
Closing will take place at an interval of half an hour or hour, and the final closure in Hawaii will occur at midnight in eastern time (0500GMT), and in Alaska at one in the morning (0600GMT).
Any person standing in line at the time of closing will be able to vote while he remains in line. This practice has led to the fact that in the last election the polling stations were closed much later than the official closing time.
According to the Florida University’s election laboratory, this year almost 86 million people voted ahead of schedule or personally. This is much less than more than 101 million people who did it in 2020, when the United States experienced the pandemia of coronavirus.
As of Monday, Trump and Harris were in almost equal position at the national level: Harris is only +0.1%ahead of Trump with 48.7%, and Trump – from 48.6%, according to the selection of polls compiled RealClearpolitics site. Harris confidently gaining glasses in recent weeks, destroying the advantage that Trump has increased in the last months of the election campaign.