The U.S presidential campaign is closing in a final sprint to the official election day on November 5, with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and the Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, focused on seven political battleground states that most likely will determine the outcome.
According to the University of Florida’s Election Lab, over 14 million people have already cast early ballots, and more will do so in the coming
days as almost all the country’s 50 states open polling stations for early voting and to accept mail-in ballots.
National polls show the contest is among the closest in decades, with Harris holding a slight edge.
U.S. presidential elections are not decided by the national popular vote but rather through the Electoral College vote, which turns the election into 50 state-by-state contests, with 48 of the 50 states awarding all their electoral votes to the winner in their states, either Harris or Trump, while Nebraska and Maine allocate theirs by both state and congressional district vote counts.
