It's the closest race for the White House in 60 years. CNN data reporter Harry Enten believes that Pennsylvania will be the most decisive state in deciding the outcome of the 5 November elections between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
In this interview, Harry Enten talks us through the data related to the US election, explaining how the country's electoral system works, which is very different from European systems.
«In the United States, there are 50 state elections - and also those in the district of Columbia - and the winner from each of these states gets the electoral college votes allocated to that state», he explains. «If Donald Trump wins Florida with 50% of the votes, against 49% for Kamala Harris, all the electoral college votes from that state will go to Trump», he says.
When examining the national polls, Enten points out that they don't serve to predict possible winners, but only to show how close an election can be. And this one in particular, he describes as «crazy».
This race for the White House will be extremely tight: «When you look at the decisive states, in all of them less than three percentage points separates the candidates». This reality is unprecedented since there have been reliable polls in the US.
Between now and election day, the candidates will have to decided which strategies will guarantee them the support of undecided voters. Enten is convinced that the decisive factors for swaying undecided voters will be economic policy, rhetoric and television advertising.
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