About 240 million people are eligible to vote in this year’s US election, but only a relatively small number of them are likely to settle the question of who becomes the next president. Experts believe there are only a handful of states that could plausibly be won by either Democratic President Joe Biden or his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump.
Six of them – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – appear to be on a knife edge and probably hold the key to who will take the White House. So both parties are campaigning intensively to win over undecided voters in these states.
Mr Biden gained the presidency in 2020 with the support of the Grand Canyon State, which narrowly voted to back a Democratic candidate for the first time since the 1990s. This state borders Mexico for hundreds of miles, and has become a focal point of the nation’s immigration debate. Arrivals at the US border have hit record highs while Mr Biden has been in office, presenting him with a major electoral headache. Border crossings have fallen in recent months but he has toughened his stance and made plans to enact border shutdowns when crossings surge.
Mr Trump has repeatedly attacked his rival’s record on immigration, and has vowed to carry out “the largest deportation operation” in US history if he regains the presidency. Arizona has also hosted a bitter row over abortion access, after state Republicans attempted to reinstate a 160-year-old near-total ban on terminating pregnancies. It’s become an explosive issue nationwide since 2022 when the US Supreme Court overturned a landmark ruling that gave women the constitutional right to abortion.
Source: bBC
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