in the seven swing States likely to decide the election on Tuesday the timing of the results vary based on laws in each state and the volume of absentee votes with the earliest indication of who might win likely coming by the end of election day when results are reported in Georgia and North Carolina but final tallies could take days or weeks in a race this close with polling averages showing Harris and Trump within two points of each other nationally unofficial results could take days to come in especially if races come down to a small number of
votes in the seven Battlegrounds North Carolina and Georgia are expected to be the first swing states to release results which could indicate which candidate is likely to win in a phenomenon known as the red Mirage early vote counts on Election Day are likely to favor Trump as in-person ballots are counted since Democrats tend to favor absentee voting and the counting of mailin ballots is often delayed leading to a so-called blue shift at the same time smaller rural Republican leading Precinct are also more likely to report vote totals before larger urban districts while early voting records
have broken records in several States the share of absentee ballots is expected to decrease this year the 2016 election was called for Trump much quicker by 2:29 a.m. the night after the election after he won Wisconsin's 10 electors the election was called for President Joe Biden on November 7th 2020 4 days after the election when Biden won Pennsylvania as the state put him over the 270 vote threshold needed to secure victory for more on this story check out Sarah doran's article in the link in the description [Music]
