US chooses between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump with no clear favorite Uncertainty about the winner of the presidential election and the length of the vote count dominate a momentous day for the country and the world November 5, 2024, has arrived loaded with uncertainty. As Americans who have not yet voted head to the polls, there are only questions. The main one: who will win? The second: when will the result be announced? The most important election in recent history for the future of the United States, and the world, does not have a clear favorite.
The polls place Donald Trump and Kamala Harris almost neck-and-neck in the swing states that will tip the balance one way or the other. If the result is as close as the polls indicate — and that is another unknown — the vote count could last many days in a divided and tense country, while the world waits in suspense to find out who will hold the keys to the White House for the next four years. The U.
S. has witnessed some heart-stopping presidential elections in recent history. In 2000, the media mistakenly proclaimed Al Gore president over George W.
Bush on election night, only to later rectify the error. Hours later, Bill Clinton’s vice president congratulated his rival, only to retract his statement. In the end, after a recount in Florida aborted by the Supreme Court in December, Bush won the state by a margin of 537 votes.
The most recent election, in November 2020, was decided by a margin of 44,000 votes in three of .