Will your vote count? 2024 election will be decided by 6 percent of U.S. voters ... trends now
Six percent of voters in six states will decide the next president of the United States, a new report claimed on Monday with six months to go until the November 5th election.
National polls show a statistical tie between Joe Biden and Donald Trump but strategists have honed in on the six states they see as key to a victory: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
And in those six states, it will be a margin of six percent of voters who decide the winner, officials from both sides told Axios.
Biden won all six states in the 2020 election but the margins were close: Biden won all of them by less than three points.
And flipping just a little more than 81,139 votes in four of the states - Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Georgia - would have handed Trump the White House, the Washington Post found.
There are a few other states in the mix when it comes to the fight for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
Both campaigns are looking closely at North Carolina, which Trump won by a little more than one percent in 2020.
The Trump campaign also argues Minnesota and Virginia are in play - both of which Biden won last time. And Biden's team argues Florida - Trump's home state that the former president carried four years ago - is within reach.
But the main focus is on the Democrats' so-called blue wall, where older, whiter voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as the most competitive for Biden.
It's seen as more necessary than the Sun Belt states Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and North Carolina.
The Rust Belt states appear more competitive: Trump leads by 1.4 points in Michigan, 2 points in Pennsylvania and 2.8 points in Wisconsin, according to FiveThirtyEight's polling averages.
Whereas Trump's margin is greater in the Sun Belt where he leads Biden between 3 and 7 points in
