When will we know the results of the presidential election?
Voters may not have to wait quite as long after Election Day as four years ago to know whom the next president will be. The public needed to wait almost five days in 2020 before most major news outlets could issue a projection, the longest they had to wait since the infamous 2000 election. One…
US presidential election remains very close; late counting in Australian elections
The United States presidential election will be held on November 5. In analyst Nate Silver’s aggregate of national polls, Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump by 48.6–47.4, a gain for Trump since last Wednesday, when Harris led by 48.8–47.2. Harris’ national lead peaked on October 2, when she led by 49.4–45.9. The US president isn’t elected by the national popular vote, but by the Electoral College, in which each state receives electoral votes equal to its federal House seats (population based) and senators (always two). Almost all states award their electoral votes as winner-takes-all, and it takes 270 electoral votes...
How Could Trump’s ‘Little Secret’ With Speaker Mike Johnson Help Win the Election?
Donald Trump claims that he and House Speaker Mike Johnson are hiding a “little secret” that is going to have a “big impact” in the election. The former president told supporters at his MAGA rally at Madison Square Garden: “I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the House.” Trump said he will only reveal the secret “when the race is over” but his cloak-and-dagger act had Washington guessing over what the GOP presidential nominee and the Republican House Speaker are cooking up between them.