This Tuesday, November 5, 2024, the United States presidential elections were held, an electoral event in which more than 240 million people have cast their vote in favor, with two clear protagonists: the Republican Donald Trump and the Democrat Kamala Harris. , both with the goal of occupying the position of American president.
Although everything pointed to a tie and equal votes between both parties, finally the vote count to date has confirmed that it will be Donald Trump who will occupy the White House again, since he has achieved great representation in key states, with the map of the 50 dyed states, almost entirely red.
The first thing to know is that these presidential elections are indirect, so citizens vote for the list of members of the Electoral College and, later, they are the ones who directly elect the president and vice president of the new Government. In total, there are 538 voters and, To win, one of the candidates has to get 270.
What did they vote for in New York?
Faced with this post-election panorama, there are many who wonder what has happened in the state of New York, since this is the place where the new president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, was born, something that It will become official in January 2025when electors gather and count the votes to announce the winner so that, days later,
Specifically, Trump was born in 1946 (age 78) at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in New York. This state is one of those that generates the least doubts when it comes to counting the votes of a presidential election and knowing its results, since, historically, it is a Democratic area.
Thus, the state of New York, where the Republican Donald Trump was born, is majority Democratic, so The 28 electoral votes of this territory go to Kamala Harris on this occasion.
Of course, it must be mentioned that the 28 voters have been quite close, since Donald Trump has obtained 45% of the citizens’ votes, while Kamala Harris has obtained 55%. Thus, one might think of a greater difference between both candidates, but the truth is that the Republican has won a total of 3,338,581 votes, while the Democrat has taken 4,151,877 votes.
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