The race for the White House is proving to be very close, so how could each candidate make it over the line? A candidate needs 270 electoral college votes to win the presidential election. Each state has a different number of electoral college votes depending on the size of its electorate. US election 2020 live:
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Polls in a historic US election have started to close, as Donald Trump and Joe Biden prepare to find out who has won the race for the White House. Six states – including the battleground of Georgia – saw voting end at 7pm (12am GMT), with “toss up” races such as Florida and Pennsylvanian due
Donald Trump and Joe Biden are making their last-ditch appeals to voters, as they dash between battleground states crucial to winning the White House. The US president is using the final 24 hours before election day to hold rallies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. His Democrat challenger is focusing on Ohio and Pennsylvania,
“Dear Joe, thanks for the memories. We miss you so much.” “Ricky Taylor – we will tell your story, love you dad.” “Jose Angel Ciaz Rodriguez – papu we miss you.” Fluttering in the autumn wind, these are just some of the messages grieving friends and relatives have written on 230,000 white flags planted in
Joe Biden has summoned up the Motown star power of Stevie Wonder and political heft of Barack Obama in a glitzy rally in Detroit as the US presidential campaign entered its final stages. Obama appeared alongside his former vice-president for the first time in this year’s race for the White House, at two drive-in rallies
Benjamin Banneker was a self-taught African American surveyor, astronomer and horologist. In 1791 – at the request of Thomas Jefferson – he assisted in the layout of modern Washington DC – the capital of a nation, currently undergoing the painful process of selecting its president and commander- in-chief for the next four years. Banneker’s contribution
Only five days to go until election day and the scenarios for what next week might look like are endless. A red mirage? A blue wave? Too close to call? US correspondent Cordelia Lynch and Washington bureau chief Emily Purser Brown game the possible outcomes as campaigns draw to a close, with the help of
In the tightly contested state of Florida, emotions are running high. Outside a Joe Biden rally in Tampa, small but vocal groups of Democrats and Republicans are facing off. “Why are you so dumb?” a Biden supporter shouts out of his car window, with an equally furious Trump fan yelling back. Image: Outside a Joe
I remember election night 2016 well. I was in the bar of the Holiday Inn, Johnstown in the heart of the Pennsylvanian rust belt. There is remarkable passion in American politics and it was palpable that evening as I joined locals to watch the results come in. I’d spent time with them over the previous
We’re used to hearing that each American election is hugely important. But this time, really, it is. Ask anyone in foreign policy establishments either side of the Atlantic. For some you need to go back to the 19th century to the eve of the US civil war to find an election as significant as this.
Politics and the pandemic have converged in America and Wisconsin is the eye of the storm. The state is now one of the world’s coronavirus hotspots. Around one in every four people being tested here is COVID-19 positive. That didn’t stop Donald Trump holding a packed rally here on Tuesday. His vice president then held
Joe Biden has criticised ongoing unrest and looting in Philadelphia after casting his vote in the US presidential election. The Democratic candidate made the comments on Wednesday at a polling station in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was accompanied by his wife Jill. He told reporters there was “no excuse whatsoever” for the chaos in Philadelphia,
Early indications are that the polls have been proved wrong, but Joe Biden has the momentum going forward. The former vice president has regained some of the states lost by Hillary Clinton in 2016 and may have pulled of a historic victory in at least one formerly red state. The election is still yet to
The coronavirus pandemic has seen an unprecedented number of voters register to cast their ballot by mail – raising the very real possibility that we may not know who has won the US election for several days. In 2016, Donald Trump was declared the winner of Wisconsin at 7.29am UK time on the day after
Joe Biden heads to Georgia on Tuesday in a final push for votes in the deep south Peach State which – for the first time in decades – has emerged as an electoral battleground. If the Democrats win here, it’s likely to signal doom for Donald Trump’s re-election bid. The state has already broken all
It’s a sobering thought when the eldest son of Atlanta’s most famous civil rights leader looks you in the eye and tells you American democracy is under threat and he’s worried about the possibility of another civil war. With just one full week of campaigning in the US elections to go, Martin Luther King III