[美대선] 결전의 날… 승패 가르는 7개 경합주는? As latest polls have been indicating, this presidential race is deadlocked. For every detail, our Kim Bo-kyoung is here in the studio. Bo-kyoung, welcome. Hi, Jung-min. Thanks for having me. Bo-kyoung, voters began going to polling stations to choose their next leader. How many are expected to cast their votes? Well Jung-min, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, the number of eligible voters for this election is estimated to be 244 million. Four years ago during the 2020 presidential election, over two-thirds of eligible Americans voted --66-point-8 percent to be exact, according to survey data from the Census Bureau. That was more than 158-million votes, marking the highest voter turnout since 1900, which was 73-point-2 percent. If we take a look at the early voting turnout, roughly 82-million people had already cast ballots as of Monday, showing how enthusiastic voters are to choose the next president. It is lower than in 2020, but given that 2020 was the pandemic period, we could still say the figure is still on pace for a historical high compared with other previous years. And this is why experts say projections from early voting indicate that the overall turnout for the election will be probably between 60 percent and the two-thirds of eligible voters who voted in 2020. We will definitely have to see how many voters turn out for the election given that this year's rivalry is fierce. Could you tell us the battleground states and what the latest polls suggest? Of course. Except for Nebraska and Maine, all other states in the U.S. follow a winner-takes-all system where the candidate who receives the majority of the popular vote in that state takes all of the state’s allocated electoral votes. The Electoral College, consisting of 538 electors, is distributed across America's 50 states and the District of Columbia. This means a candidate must secure at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidential election. This is why many media outlets say it is the "road to 270." Based on several reports, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris has effectively secured 226 electoral votes, while former Republican President Donald Trump has secured 219. The remaining 93 votes from seven battleground states are crucial in determining the outcome of the election. Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, are grouped as the three major battleground states in the Rust Belt region. They were once known for their strong Democratic support, being dubbed the "Blue Wall." However, in the 2016 presidential election, former President Donald Trump swept these states, propelled by the strong appeal of his "America First" policy, while in 2020, Democratic candidate Joe Biden reclaimed them all back again. Meanwhile, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia are swing states in the Sun Belt, which includes 15 states extending across the southern U.S., from southwest to southeast, and have hotter climates than the northern states. The latest polls are showing a close race between Harris and Trump, with some even contradicting each other's surveys in the seven battleground states that I just mentioned. For example, final swing state polls from Emerson College and The Hill showed Trump having the edge in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Arizona, while Harris was ahead in Michigan. In contrast, polls from The New York Times and Siena College showed that Harris had a slight lead in enough states to win the Electoral College. Alright, so those are 93 electoral votes from seven toss-up states. As our Park Kun-woo just reported, two states do not take a winner-takes-all approach. Tell us about this in detail. Of course, so we talked about how a candidate wins the race through a system called the Electoral College. But two states allow electoral votes to be split and they are Maine and Nebraska. In Nebraska, two of five electoral votes go to the winner of the statewide vote. and the rest of the electoral vote goes to the winner in each of Nebraska’s three congressional districts. Nebraska is largely a red state but the swing district around Omaha, the state’s largest city, is called the "Blue Dot," as it went blue for the first time in 2008, voting for former President Barack Obama, and then went blue again for President Joe Biden in 2020... #UnitedStates #Election #Presidential_election #Battleground #DonaldTrump #KamalaHarris #미국 #대선 #경합주 #도널드트럼프 #카말라해리스 #Arirang_News #아리랑뉴스 📣 Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/arirangtvnews 📣 Twitter : https://twitter.com/arirangtvnews 📣 Homepage : https://v2.arirang.com/ 2024-11-05, 20:00 (KST)