As Donald Trump won the presidential elections, a major push came from swing states. There are seven swing states in the United States which are neither democrat nor republic and hence play a decisive role in the elections. These seven swing states include - Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, and Nevada.
Trump wins North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania
According to trends, Donald Trump is ahead in all these swing states except Nevada where the trends are not open yet. In North Carolina, Trump secured victory by a narrow margin of 2.8 per cent. Donald Trump garnered 2,666,753 votes while Kamala Harris got 2,520,256. In Georgia, Trump won by over 1.4 per cent votes. He got 2,637,252 votes while Kamala got 2,509,358 votes.
In Pennsylvania, Trump garnered over 51 per cent of votes while his Democrat rival Harris got nearly 48 per cent of votes. Pennsylvania with 19 electoral votes made the biggest contribution to Trump's nationwide victory given the swing state nature of the state.
Projections in other states
In most of the states over 70 per cent of votes have been counted. In Arizona, where the difference is just half per cent, 50 per cent of the votes have been counted so far. In Wisconsin, Trump is leading with over 4 per cent of votes and the counting of over 80 per cent of votes has been concluded. In Michigan, Trump has taken a lead of over 4 per cent as nearly half of the counting has concluded.
What happened in 2020?
In the 2020 presidential election, Democrats won the swing states by 6:1. President Joe Biden clinched six of these seven swing states except North Carolina where Trump attained victory. Notably, across the seven main battleground states in 2024, there are 10 counties, out of more than 500, that voted for Trump in 2016 and then flipped to Joe Biden in 2020. Most are small and home to relatively few voters, with Arizona's Maricopa a notable exception. So it's not likely they'll swing an entire state all by themselves.
