If Kamala Harris beats Donald Trump in the American Presidential Election being held today and occupies the White House, she will become the first female president of the United States of America. In the 247 years of American history, no woman has been elected to the Office of the American President. On the contrary, if Trump, a former president who lost the 2020 election, makes a comeback to White House, he will be one of a very few former presidents – like Grover Cleveland, in 1888 – to win a re-election after first suffering a defeat.

On the America election map, red represents the Republican party and blue represents the Democratic party. To win the election, a candidate has to secure 270 electoral votes from the 538 up for grabs. There has been a neck-and-neck competition between Trump and Harris, and the results in the battleground states of Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona will decide the fate of the November 5 presidential election. Trump – who still pedals the narrative that he was robbed of his mandate in the 2020 election and that if he loses this time too, he will not accept the results – is somebody who can do anything to gain power. Trump entered politics as a property tycoon with no support base in the Republican Party. But with his ideology focusing on anti-immigration; resisting the demographic transformation of US from a heavily white country 100 years ago to one with a surging non-white population; and protecting the interests of rich Americans, Trump gained support from large segments of angry white males........

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