By Our Foreign Correspondent.
Washington, Sept 04 (IVC) It was not the popular votes, but the electoral college is the decisive factor for determining the victory in the election. The fight for the possession of the White House in January 2025 in between the Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for the Democratic Party and Donald Trump and his running mate J D Vance for the Republican Party was progressing .
In the US Presidential election , it was not enough for the candidate to win the popular vote in percentage terms. They have to win the electoral college, a group of presidential electors from each State whose number is determined by the population of the State.
The electoral college consists of 538 electors and the candidate requires a majority of 270 votes to become the president. The large states such as California, Texas and New York for example 55,38 and 29 electoral college votes. The position of the electoral college votes in the swing States like Pennsylvania (19), Michigan (15), Georgia (16), North Carolina (16), Wisconsin (10), Arizona (11), Nevada (6) and Florida (30).
In the latest opinion polls in the swing states Kamala Harris is ahead of 3.5 percentage points in popular votes. Both parties are locked in horns to score the maximum electoral colleges votes.
Trump camp finds consolation , though Harris was ahead of Trump in popular votes, it would not be matter and the Democratic would get sufficient number of electoral college votes to win the election. Trump camp is confident of winning the election as there is two months for November 05 election and the electoral winds would flow in favour of the Republican party.
