WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump is leading his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the latest rounds of vote count in the high-stakes US Presidential election but a clear picture is set to emerge on who will occupy the White House once definitive trends emerge from the seven battleground states.
Voting is still underway in the battleground state of Pennsylvania and several other states. But at the same time, counting of early ballots and mail-in votes is going on in these states.
The winner needs to cross 270 of the 538 electoral college votes.
More than 82 million American voters had already cast their ballot before Tuesday, called Election Day, either through in-person voting at early voting stations or through postal ballot. This was more than 51 per cent of the total of 158 million votes that were cast in 2020, at the height of a raging Covid-19 pandemic.