As of 9 o’clock on the East Coast, polls have just closed in 14 more states that represent a total of 156 electoral votes — or nearly 30 percent of the total, Fox News reports. Several of these states are considered crucial battlegrounds for the presidency. Let’s start with Arizona, a state that could make or break President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term. Although Trump spent the last eight months trailing Joe Biden in Arizona’s pre-election polls, he managed to close the gap in the campaign’s final days. And then there’s the Upper Midwest, which played such an important role in Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Source: The Standard November 04, 2020 03:00 UTC