President Donald Trump beat all poll predictions to come to power in 2016 when he defeated Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton through electoral college votes. Now he will look to retain his White House seat against rival Joe Biden in the November 3 US Presidential election. Donald Trump in 2016 turned traditionally blue states Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan to win the election and also won swing states of Florida, Arizona and Iowa.
Trump must now retain these key states in order to retain the White House. Trump flipped the state of Pennsylvania in 2016, winning it by a slender margin of 44,292 votes.
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Nate Silver the founder of the opinion poll website FiveThirtyEight.com has said that Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden will become an ‘underdog’ if he fails to win Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes on November 3. Speaking at an interview for media outlet ABC’s show “The Week”, Silver said that the Presidential race will come down to the Keystone state.
He added, “without Pennsylvania, then Biden becomes an underdog.”
The Trump campaign has doubled down in the Northeastern state, appealing to voters to turn up and cast their ballot. Trump has visited the state several times, conducting rallies before the November 3 Presidential Elections. RealClearPolitics polls however, show Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden leading in the state by more than 4% points.
The state of Ohio which voted for the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012, had voted for President Donald Trump in 2016. President Trump seems to be enjoying a slender lead in the Buckeye State over his rival Biden, Trump hangs on to 0.2% point lead in the state according to RealClearPolitics.
Trump must also win the king maker states of Florida and Iowa to retain the White House.
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Florida has decisively swung the election in the winner’s favour since the early 1900’s, and in 2016 it turned red, allowing Donald Trump to gain all 29 electoral votes. In the 2020 election, RealClearPolitics gives Biden a 1.4% point lead ahead of election day, but President Donald Trump has been campaigning aggressively in the state.
In Iowa, which has 6 electoral college votes, Donald Trump had come out on top in 2016. The state flipped red in 2016 following its vote to Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, this time around Trump retains his lead in the Hawkeye state. According to RealClearPolitics, Trump holds a 1.4% point lead in the swing state and expected to win it.
Wisconsin and Michigan voted for President Trump in 2016, but according to RealClearPolitics Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden holds a whooping 6.6% and 5.1% point lead in both states.
While Trump visited Michigan’s Macomb county on Sunday, ahead of November 3, the Biden campaign has also stepped up its operations in the state as the Presidential candidate visited Flint, Michigan.
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President Donald Trump and the Republican party painted Arizona red in the 2016 US Presidential election, and will look for a repeat of the same in order to retain the White House for four more years. Amid chants of ‘Keep America Great’ and quips of the election being a ‘battle for the soul of the nation,’ America’s ‘The Grand Canyon State’ will turn into a battle ground come November 3. Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden will go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump on election day to win Arizona’s 11 electoral college votes.
A New York Times report shows Joe Biden clinging on to a six point lead in the red state of Arizona, ahead of election day. Arizona last voted Democrat in 1996, when they put former president Bill Clinton into the White House for a second term.
