Michigan. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and as extras Maine and Nevada, are the key states or swing states (states that can opt for one party or another) in the United States elections, where the majority of the electoral votesnecessary to reach the presidency.
Among them there is also Michiganwhere this Monday the former president donald trump closed his electoral campaign where 15 electoral votes.
Here, the democratic candidate leads the polls by a minimum of 48% over the 47% of the republican candidate.
Along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Michigan It is one of the states that in 2016, by a minimal margin, leaned towards donald trump after almost 30 years of supporting Democratic candidates.
- 30% of the population of Michigan is Latina, which has a tendency to republican vote. According to the 2020 census, the number of Dominicans residing in this state exceeds 7,000.
Key counties within the state are detroitOakland, Macomb, Kent and Washtenaw. Since the beginning of last week, there has been a great movement of voters depositing their ballots in the ballot boxes located in strategic places in the state and with easy access.
This is how the electoral centers go
Free Diary visited two polling stations in the state, where at 12:00 noon a small influx of voters.
The presidents of the polling stations have separated the press about 100 meters away from the centers, as a preventive “anti-harassment” measure towards the voters.
The little presence of voters is also due to early votewhich until today already reached a total of 82,052,087 throughout the country.
The centers opened at 8:00 in the morning and are expected to close at 8:00 pm and others at 9:00 pm because there are two in the state time zones.
The key states and their votes
North Carolina and Georgia are both 16 electoral votesthe state with the highest number of votes is Pennsylvania with 19, followed by Michigan with 15, Wisconsin and Minnesota with 10, Arizona with 11 votes and Nevada with 4.
