Watch our Never Mind the Ballots US election special with Andrew Neil as Trump and Harris make final push
11/03/2024 03:42 AM
TUNE into our Never Mind the Ballots US election special with Andrew Neil as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris make the final push.
You can watch the analysis on thesun.co.uk, our YouTube channel and on our social media accounts.
Trump and Harris are just days away from finding out who has won the race to the White House and become the 47th President.
After a stormy election campaign, Americans will head to the polls on Tuesday – making Kamala the first female President or voting Trump back in.
Our Political Editor Harry Cole will be bringing you the latest analysis on a special US election episode of Never Mind the Ballots tonight.
Expert guests on our spectacular show, in association with Betfair, include broadcaster and journalist Andrew Neil.
BetFair Spokesman Sam Rosbottom will also be talking us through the latest odds – as Republican candidate Trump is a “firm favourite” to beat his Democrat opponent.
James Johnson, founder of JL Partners, will discuss the polls alongside editor of National Pule Raheem Kassem and Fox News contributor Joe Concha.
Left-wing comedian and podcast host Francesca Fiorentini will be making an appearance too.
Never Mind The Ballots has achieved 30 million views since its launch in March ahead of the UK General Election.
How do the US presidential elections work?
BY Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
The Democratic and Republican parties nominate their candidates with a series of votes – called state primaries and caucuses – in the run up to the election in November, held every four years.
This gives members the opportunity to choose who they want to lead the party into an election – this year, Donald Trump and following Biden’s resignation, Kamala Harris.
There are also some independent candidates running for president – arguably the most well-known was Robert F Kennedy Jr who pulled out in August and endorsed Trump.
In US elections the winner is not the candidate who gets the most votes across the country.
Instead Trump and Harris will compete to win smaller contests held in each of the 50 states.
Many of the states often vote the same way – but seven of them – Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona – tend to go in either direction.
Each state has a number of electoral college votes – partly based on population sizes – with a total of 538 across the country up for grabs.
The winner is the candidate that gets 270 or more, marking a majority in the electoral college.
All but two of the US’ 50 states – Maine and Nebraska – have a winner-takes-all rule.
Meaning whichever candidate gets the highest number of votes wins all of the state’s electoral college votes.
In 2016 Hillary Clinton won more votes nationally than Donald Trump – but she still lost the election because of electoral college votes.
The candidate who will win this election is the one who secures 270 or more college ballots.
Usually the winner is declared on the night, but it can take days to finalise the result.
In 2020 Joe Biden wasn’t officially announced as the president-elect until November 7.
The new president will be sworn into office in January on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington DC.
