Obama asks Democrats to go to the polls in an election that will be decided “by a handful of votes”

Former United States President Barack Obama released a video this Tuesday encouraging Democrats to vote in the face of tight elections in which “only a handful of votes” will be able to decide the winner.

“Friends, these elections are going to be close. In some states only a handful of votes in each electoral district could decide the winner,” begins a short video in which he also asks voters for help to finish persuading those who They are still not clear whether or not to go to the polls.

“You have to go out and vote. So tell your family, talk to your neighbors, make a plan, go to the polls with your friends and vote. Vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” the former US president has urged.

Obama has published the video on social networks when election day has already started in several states on the east coast, including New York, Connecticut, Maine and Virginia, although Americans have not had to wait until this Tuesday to vote since It has been possible to do it in advance for a long time.

The polls do not show a clear winner in the duel between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, which is largely contested in the hinge states or ‘swing states’, a handful of areas that do not clearly lean towards either of the two major parties and that fluctuate every four years depending on who the candidates are.

The first results will be known in the late afternoon (early morning in Spain) and the media will update their own projections, by virtue of which the map will turn red (Republican) or blue (Democratic). — until one of the two candidates reaches the threshold of 270 Electoral College delegates and is proclaimed the virtual winner.