It is possible to lose the popular vote but still win the US presidential election – as Donald Trump did in 2016
The American president is not directly elected by US voters but by 538 electors representing the states. Voters go to the polls and in 48 of the 50 states, the candidate who gets the most votes wins all of that state’s electors . The number of electors reflects each state’s population, from Alaska’s three to California’s 54. To become president, a candidate needs at least 270 votes.
In the 2024 campaign, there are seven swing states, three in the “rust belt” of the upper midwest and four in the “sun belt” of the south and southwest . In 2020won all of these with the exception of North Carolina, resulting in a comfortable electoral college victory of 306 to 232. At state level, however, some of the margins were agonisingly small. Biden won Arizona by 0.3 per cent and Georgia by 0.2 per cent.
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