Let’s do the math. To win the presidential election in the United States a candidate needs 270 votes in the Electoral College. The Republican front-runner, Donald Trump, has a promising lead of 235 votes. In his last campaign against Biden in 2020, Trump lost by a small margin in Georgia, (16 electoral votes) and Arizona (11 electoral votes), both considered then to be blue, or Democratic-leaning, states.
But since then there has been a turnaround in both states. Today, after Georgia’s liberal stance on COVID-19, it has seen an influx of Republican voters and in Arizona, located on the border with Mexico, immigration is one of the main issues on voters’ minds. Polling, therefore, now shows Trump leading in both states. That puts his electors count at 262. And to stay in office for a second term, Biden must win the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump needs just one of them to return to the White House. Meanwhile, Nevada with its six electoral votes, is a true swing state and a key battleground state.



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