50 states will vote in the US election. These seven battlegrounds are the only ones that actually matter
There might be 50 states in the United States, but only seven of them really matter in this year's presidential election.
The small handful of key battleground states are the only contests in the nation where both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are considered a genuine chance of winning, and thus hold the key to the presidential race.
They certainly were in 2020 – while Joe Biden won the popular vote by about seven million ballots, it was winning Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin by less than a combined 45,000 votes that sent him to the White House.
Pennsylvania
Electoral votes: 19
2020 result: Biden win
2016 result: Trump win
Arguably the most important of the battlegrounds thanks to its 19 electoral college votes (one fewer than what it had in ...