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☆ The US presidential election is 2 days away. Here's where things stand.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Harris and Trump are campaigning in swing states as they make their final appeals to voters. AdvertisementWith Election Day on Tuesday, the end is in sight for what has been a contentious US presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. It wasn't long before Harris began to narrow the gap between the Democrats and the GOP in the presidential race. Now, millions of women live in states with near-total abortion bans, while millions of other women live in states where abortion rights have been strengthened. In the closing days of the race, Harris has heavily emphasized the issue, which also helped Democrats in the 2022 midterms.

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The war for the first battleground electoral vote may have been decided this week before a single ballot was cast. They also pointed to the lawn signs and other symbols of enthusiasm for the Harris campaign in the city. By failing to move enough legislative votes into his column, Trump lost his chance to tuck away all five of Nebraska's electoral votes without mounting a campaign. That poll has Harris up by 9 percentage points over Trump. For now, Democrats feel good about the odds that they will look back at this week as the moment they locked up their first electoral vote.

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☆ Biden is lagging in key swing states. But white non-college voters are keeping him afloat in Wisconsin.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

And it's Biden's support among white voters without a college degree — a huge voting bloc in these areas — that's currently keeping him afloat in Wisconsin. And it's the backing of many white working-class voters that has been critical for the president. Related storiesIn the Quinnipiac poll, Wisconsin voters gave Biden positive marks on issues like abortion rights and the preservation of democracy. AdvertisementAmong white voters in Wisconsin, Biden actually led Trump by four points (50% to 46%) in the Quinnipiac poll. Advertisement"In order to win, Democrats have to overperform — by a lot — with white working-class voters in the state, because most voters in Wisconsin are white working-class voters," Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler recently told The Washington Post.

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