US Elections | Joe Biden within striking distance, but Donald Trump unlikely to concede

Hollywood knows a good thriller. Halloween is over, but yet the thriller chills for both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden campaign hit a crescendo on the night of November 3.

America went to bed on a cliffhanger, rather a state of political purgatory, with the election in the balance, and left it into the hands of the electoral college. No one likes the electoral college. Even the winning candidates will tell you that they don’t like the system. Never mind the world’s most powerful country still swears by it.

Though Biden has a slender lead over Trump, 253 to 214, Trump is leading in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia.

Trump had won the ‘swingiest’ of swing states in Ohio and Florida. To put this into perspective, the last Republican to win the White House and not Florida was Calvin Coolidge back in 1923–1924. It’s the state that single-handedly decided the 2000 election between George W Bush and Al Gore.

If I could analogize Ohio to a state in India’s election context, it would be Uttar Pradesh, in terms of political heft. No Republican has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio.

Trump’s unexpected win in 2016 was contingent on breaking the ‘blue wall’ states…