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Trump v Harris: Don’t expect to know the winner on election night, but here’s what to look out for
A very tight race, the likelihood of cheating allegations as well as some unique traits of the American electoral system point to days of uncertainty after the Nov 5 presidential election.
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Most pundits agree that the 2024 result might take even longer than the four days it took to project Mr Joe Biden the winner in 2020.
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If the previous two US presidential elections are anything to go by, there will be a victory speech by Donald Trump sometime between 2am and 3am on election night – regardless of the result.
In 2016, when it became clear that Trump was on course for a stunning win over former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, he delivered his victory remarks from a ballroom at the Hilton hotel in New York at about 2.50am.
