AMERICANS are beginning to rush to the polls as the fierce battle for the White House continues between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Keep on top of the hotly anticipated results as they come in through The Sun’s interactive map showing the live outcomes from across the US.
ReutersDonald Trump is looking to return to the White House after losing out to Joe Biden back in 2020[/caption]
GettyCurrent Vice President Kamala Harris is looking to extend her stay in office for another term[/caption]
The graphic will stay up to date with all the winners and losers from across the 50 states voting in the 2024 presidential election.
Simply click on a state to see if it is red or blue and how many votes each party has managed to receive.
Pollsters remain uncertain on if Trump or Harris will be sat in the Oval Office for the next four years with the duel between the pair still extremely close.
With many predictions saying the razor-thin fight could come down to the seven all-important swing states.
Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are currently all too close to call for punters.
They have a combined 93 electoral college votes together meaning whoever takes the majority is likely to push either Trump or Harris across the finish line.
Of the battleground states Trump is pipped to be ahead in Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia, according to the latest stats from the FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator.
Meanwhile, Harris is hanging on to slim one-point leads in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Both candidates are virtually tied in Pennsylvania meaning it could be the most vital victory for either side.
Stay on top of where each of the seven states are swinging throughout the election process by using the interactive map.
The map also shows the results from Trump’s two previous political outings.
In 2016, Trump and the Republicans overcame Hilary Clinton and the wildly incorrect polls as he took victory in his first attempt at becoming president.
A majority red map can be seen under the 2016 graphic as Trump took almost all of the decisive swing states apart from Nevada.
Four years later the map evened out a lot more with scatters of blue and red being seen.
The final result saw a reluctant Trump dumped out of the White House as Joe Biden and the Democrats took the reigns.
Now it is Biden’s Vice President Harris who is looking to once again defeat Trump and remain in office.
AFPHarris is hanging on to slim one-point leads in Michigan and Wisconsin[/caption]
AFPTrump is currently in front in the polls for several swing states[/caption]
How do the US presidential elections work?
BY Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
The Democratic and Republican parties nominate their candidates with a series of votes – called state primaries and caucuses – in the run up to the election in November, held every four years.
This gives members the opportunity to choose who they want to lead the party into an election – this year, Donald Trump and following Biden’s resignation, Kamala Harris.
There are also some independent candidates running for president – arguably the most well-known was Robert F Kennedy Jr who pulled out in August and endorsed Trump.
In US elections the winner is not the candidate who gets the most votes across the country.
Instead Trump and Harris will compete to win smaller contests held in each of the 50 states.
Many of the states often vote the same way – but seven of them – Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona – tend to go in either direction.
Each state has a number of electoral college votes – partly based on population sizes – with a total of 538 across the country up for grabs.
The winner is the candidate that gets 270 or more, marking a majority in the electoral college.
All but two of the US’ 50 states – Maine and Nebraska – have a winner-takes-all rule.
Meaning whichever candidate gets the highest number of votes wins all of the state’s electoral college votes.
In 2016 Hillary Clinton won more votes nationally than Donald Trump – but she still lost the election because of electoral college votes.
The candidate who will win this election is the one who secures 270 or more college ballots.
Usually the winner is declared on the night, but it can take days to finalise the result.
In 2020 Joe Biden wasn’t officially announced as the president-elect until November 7.
The new president will be sworn into office in January on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington DC.
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