What happens if the American election is a tie?
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🗓️ 20 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
One tiny ‘blue dot’ in Omaha, Nebraska could result in a tie between Trump and Harris. Why? And what happens then to decide who wins?
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| 1:10.0 | but with the country so divided and entrenched and a waff a thin margin between the candidates, |
| 1:16.7 | it's actually a teeny tiny group of voters in so-called swing states who'll call it. |
| 1:28.0 | Carmel-Harr Harris wins the three rust belts, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Trump wins the four sun belts, Arizona, Nevada, South Carolina, Georgia, and that puts you almost nigh on a direct tie. |
| 1:38.6 | What though, if they end up just as divided as the rest. In which case an even smaller group an infinitesimal blip of a |
| 1:49.1 | number could be king or queenmakers. |
| 1:52.0 | Nebraska and Omaha's single electoral college vote never matters to anybody in any election. |
| 1:57.8 | This time round though, there is a massive focus on it because it could be the single electoral |
| 2:02.4 | vote that ends up deciding the |
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