US Election 2024 Results: US Election Results: Exit Polls Show Kamala Harris Leading. Can Donald Trump still become president?

US election 2024 voting started on Tuesday, the last day for Americans to cast their ballots to choose their next president: Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump.More than 82 million voters have already cast their vote through early voting either in person or by mail. That is more than 51 percent of 158 million votes cast in the 2020 election.

It is in many ways a historic choice. First, it has been the closest in decades, with Harris ahead of Trump 48.0 percent to 46.8 percent in the weighted average of national polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight and 48.7 percent to 48.6 percent in the RealClearPolitics average of national opinion polls.

If Harris prevails, she will become the first woman to win the presidency, and the first African American woman, the first Asian American and the first Indian American to rise to the top of American politics.

If Trump wins, he will become only the second president in US history to lose re-election after the first term and then win on a third try. The first was Grover Cleveland.

Harris ended his campaign with his final event in Pennsylvania, one of the seven battleground states that will decide the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Trump finished in Michigan, also one of the battleground states. The other five states are Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. The winner must secure at least 270 of the 538 electoral college votes. Usually, the candidate who wins the Electoral College vote has also won the majority of the popular vote. But there have been exceptions – twice in the last six US presidential elections. Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in 2016 despite winning the national popular vote.

Republican George W. Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016 both became president despite losing the popular vote. It also happened three times in the 19th century.

This is often cited by critics as the system’s biggest flaw. Proponents of the Electoral College say it forces candidates to seek votes from a number of states rather than simply rallying support in large urban areas.

Electors will meet on December 17 to officially cast their votes and send the results to Congress. The candidate who wins 270 electoral votes or more becomes president. These votes are officially tallied by Congress on January 6, and the president is sworn in on January 20.

Generally, the caucus is a ceremonial event where they simply stamp votes for the candidate who won their respective states.

But in 2016, seven of the 538 electors registered their vote for someone other than their state’s popular vote winner, an unusually high number. Three of those seven electors voted for Colin Powell, a former US secretary of state, even though they represented states that chose the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. Trump ultimately won the election.

At least 37 states and the District of Columbia require voters to vote for a pledged candidate, according to the nonpartisan group Fair Vote.

Frequently asked questions

Q1. When will Results from the 2024 US election be declared?
A1. The results of the 2024 US election will be announced after voting on November 5.

Q2. Who is running in the 2024 US election?
A2. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are participating in the 2024 US election.