US Election 2024: Donald Trump takes key battleground states Georgia and North Carolina as Kamala Harris path to White House narrows

Five reasons Trump is on the verge of winning

The Irish Independent’s Adrian Weckler writes from Pennsylvania about the count as it stands…

It’s Wednesday morning and Donald Trump is inching all but guaranteed a presidential election win.

It was as clear an hour ago when I left the glum Democratic election party for the (re-elected) Irish American Congresswoman Mary Scanlon in Philadelphia’s wealthy Delaware county.

A sort of pre-post-mortem is already underway on the television networks as to why Trump scored so well among certain demographics, particularly Latino voters and white women.

Here is what seems relevant at this half-way stage.

1. The Hispanic vote moved toward Trump

Exit polls suggest that 45pc of Hispanics voted for Trump this time, a full 10pc more than 2020. The reasons why will be teased out in the days to come, but one of Harris’s strong points — abortion — may not have been as persuasive to a strong Catholic ethos.

2. Not enough white women voted for…