USA 2020 elections: Donald Trump in Wisconsin, one of the 3 "swing states"

Donald Trump, September 16, 2020. MANDEL NGAN / AFP

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With 47 days before the election, the mailing of ballots continues in the United States.

They begin to be sent this Thursday, September 17 to voters who have requested them in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Three states whose results will be decisive to win the presidential election.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden will increase travel in these "swing states" until November 3.

The president is for example this Thursday in Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania: three crucial states in the Midwest that can, with a few votes, switch to the Democratic or the Republican side.

By obtaining a majority of the votes, the candidate wins all the state voters.

He needs at least 270 to enter the White House.

There are 10 major voters to collect in Wisconsin that Donald Trump is visiting this Thursday.

In 2016, he had to everyone's surprise won this state with only 22,000 votes more than his opponent Hillary Clinton.

The president had also won by a hair in Pennsylvania, 20 major voters.

A traditionally democratic state that Joe Biden intends to reconquer this year.

As in Wisconsin, it is currently credited with several points ahead in the polls.

Finally Michigan, 16 electors, the cradle of the American automobile industry, also marked by industrial decline.

He also traditionally blue, but who had switched to republican red 4 years ago, for the first time since 1988, again for a handful of votes.

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