On Sunday, FBI director James Comey announced Sunday the Bureau reviewed a new batch of Hillary Clinton emails and was not recommending charges.
Although Comey’s original announcement of the investigation closed the gap in the polls between Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump, Global News Montreal’s political analyst Raphael Jacob still picks the Democratic nominee to win.
“Never at any moment did Trump entirely catch up with Clinton,” Jacob said Monday. “We’re 24 hours away from the first polls closing and he is still behind, not by 20 points but by a good, solid and stable two to three points nationally, which is more than enough.”
In order to win the U.S. elections, a candidate needs to win 270 electoral votes out of a possible 538.
Each state is assigned a number of electoral votes based on the number of delegates it can elect in the House of Representatives, plus two for their senators.
For Instance, the State of Vermont has three electoral college votes since they are allowed to elect one official to the U.S. House of Representative, plus two more for each U.S. senator (every state has two senators in the U.S. Congress).
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Each state has a varying number of electoral college votes, California has the most with 55, which make some more important than others.
“Even if we take out all of the states that we consider toss ups at the moment, so that could realistically either fall in Clinton’s column or Trump’s column, she is still over that magic threshold of 270 electoral college votes,” Jacob said. “She is in a very strong position.”
The current number of electoral college votes will remain the same for the 2020 elections and be reviewed for 2024.