Washington: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won North Carolina, one of the swing states in the US presidential election, defeating his rival, Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris, who had hoped to turn the result in favor of the Democrats and expand her chances of reaching 270 electoral votes.

According to Qatar News Agency, Trump made successive tours of the state during the last three days of the election campaign, aiming to boost his chances of winning it, in light of the division of the American people over the next choice for the country’s presidency.

For her part, Jen O’Malley Dillon, campaign manager for Harris, said in a memo distributed to the campaign team that the “blue wall” of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin now represents the clearest path for Democrats to victory.

While polls have closed in other states such as Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada, their results are still inconclusive.

Each candidate needs at least 270 Electoral College vo
tes to win, determined by the popular vote in each state.

The Electoral College comprises 538 votes, with each state allotted a specific number of electoral votes equal to its representation in the House and Senate. The candidate with the most votes in a state wins all of that state’s electoral votes, except in Nebraska and Maine, which have a unique system allowing their electoral votes to be split between candidates based on the proportion of votes each receives.