{"id":246398,"date":"2024-11-06T05:36:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T05:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/06\/trump-leads-in-key-swing-states-in-bid-to-retake-white-house\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T05:36:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T05:36:59","slug":"trump-leads-in-key-swing-states-in-bid-to-retake-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/06\/trump-leads-in-key-swing-states-in-bid-to-retake-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump leads in key swing States in bid to retake White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Donald Trump has won the critical swing state of North Carolina and its 16 Electoral College votes in a pivotal moment in the election.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heel state was a key target for both campaigns and was the scene of frenzied campaigning, with Trump making stops there in each of the last three days of the race.<\/p>\n<p>In a major boost to the Republican, it was the first of the seven swing states, that will ultimately determine the winner, to be decided.<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 campaign chair Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon told staff in a memo that, after losing North Carolina, the \u2018blue wall\u2019 northern industrial states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were now the Democrat\u2019s \u2018clearest path\u2019 to victory.<\/p>\n<p>She suggested the race was \u2018not going to come into focus until the early morning hours.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Democrat presidential candidate has not claimed victory in North Carolina since Barack Obama in 2008. Trump has now won it in three straight elections.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4.2 million North Carolinians voted early before Election Day, breaking the record turnout in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Turnout in some western counties hit by Hurricane Helene outpaced the rest of the state as election officials made sure victims could cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s victory came despite an exit poll showing only 43 percent of voters in North Carolina had a favourable view of him, while 48 said that of Harris.<\/p>\n<p>It found 36 percent of voters in North Carolina said the economy mattered most in deciding how to vote in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 32 percent said the state of democracy, 13 percent abortion, 12 percent immigration, and 4 percent foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Some 47 percent of North Carolina voters said their family\u2019s financial situation was worse than it was four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The exit poll found 69 percent of North Carolina voters were white, up four points from 2020. The percentage of white men was up five points.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, 78, was seeking to become the oldest person ever elected president.<\/p>\n<p>He would also be the first defeated president in 132 years to win another term in the White House, and the first person convicted of a felony to take over the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, 60, would be the first woman, black woman, and person of South Asian descent to serve as president.<\/p>\n<p>She would also be the first sitting vice president to win the White House in 36 years.<\/p>\n<p>With North Carolina decided all eyes turned to the other six swing states.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was showing strength across broad swaths of the country.<\/p>\n<p>By 11.30pm Eastern Time he had won 227 Electoral College votes to Harris\u2019 165.<\/p>\n<p>A candidate needs a total of at least 270 votes in the state-by-state Electoral College to claim the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Trump picked up support from Hispanics, traditionally Democratic voters, and among lower-income households that have keenly felt the sting of price rises since the last presidential election in 2020, according to exit polls from Edison.<\/p>\n<p>Trump won 45 percent of Hispanic voters nationwide, trailing Harris with 53 percent, but up 13 percentage points from 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Voters whose top issue was the economy voted overwhelmingly for Trump, especially if they felt they were worse off financially than they were four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>About 31 percent of voters said the economy was their top issue.<\/p>\n<p>And 45 percent of voters across the country said their family\u2019s financial situation was worse today than four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was earning a bigger share of the vote than he did four years ago in nearly every corner of the country, from suburban Georgia to rural Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>By 11pm officials had nearly completed their count of ballots in more than 1,200 counties, about a third of the country, and Trump\u2019s share was up about 2 percentage points compared to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: Dailymail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has won the critical swing state of North Carolina and its 16 Electoral College votes in a pivotal moment in the election. 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