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Where are the votes that matter most in the 2024 US presidential election?

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A voter casting their mail-in ballot at a ballot drop box outside Maricopa County Recorder and Elections Department during the Arizona state primary election in on July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble/File Photo

While millions of Americans will be voting on Nov 5, the winner is likely to be decided by votes cast in a handful of counties in just seven of America’s 50 states. 

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 The

Sept 15

attempted

assassination of Donald Trump

was just another extraordinary moment in a US presidential race that has, in the past two months, seen a sitting president drop out of the running and pave the way for a woman of colour to replace him on the ticket.

It says something about the state of the race that there has been more discussion about

the competence of the US Secret Service

than on a former president’s two brushes with death in as many months.

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