93: The Electoral College map appears to have Harris entering Election Day with 226 votes to 219 for Trump, with 93 electoral votes in seven swing states set to decide the race. The magic number needed is, of course, 270.
20%: Those seven swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — together represent less than 20% of the U.S. population, the Associated Press notes.
721, 107 and 92: It has been 721 days since former President Donald Trump announced that he would seek another term in office, 107 days since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and 92 days since Vice President Kamala Harris secured the Democratic nomination.
80: Combined visits by the presidential campaigns, including that of President Joe Biden, to Pennsylvania dating back to March, according to the AP. That’s the most campaign stops of any swing state, and it’s not surprising given that Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes are also the most among the seven states. Michigan has hosted presidential campaigns 63 times, while Wisconsin saw 50 visits and North Carolina got 45. Arizona, Georgia and Nevada were visited 27, 26 and 25 times, respectively.
$1.64 billion: The total campaign funding raised by 2024 presidential candidates, according to Federal Election Commission data as of October 17 compiled by OpenSecrets, which tracks money in U.S. politics. Outside groups supporting the campaigns have raised roughly $1.7 billion.
Vice President Kamala Harris has dominated on the financial front. She raised more than $1 billion and outside groups backing her have added about $586 million. Former President Donald Trump has raised about $382 million, with outside money accounting for another $694 million.
“But in some ways it’s the donors, not the money, that’s most revealing,” Politico’s Jessica Piper wrote on Friday. “Donors are a subset of voters, tending to reflect the most engaged supporters on either side. And Harris has a massive donor advantage: Her operation, carried over from President Joe Biden, has more than twice as many donors as Trump's campaign apparatus.”
$10.8 billion: Total political ad spending — not just on the presidential race — since January 2023, according to AdImpact. That includes $6.1 billion spent just since September — and just shy of $1 billion spent in the last week.
“Since Harris took over the top of the ticket, the Presidential race has seen over $2.3B in ad spending. With Election Day tomorrow, Democratic advertisers will end up with a $460M spending advantage over Republicans,” Ad Impact said Monday. Harris has gotten $1.26 billion worth of advertising support, compared to $932.5 million for Trump. And more than $272 million has been spent on ads in the presidential race just over the last week, CNBC reported Sunday, citing AdImpact data.
34: Republicans are favored in the race to control the Senate, where Democrats now hold a slim 51-49 majority. Voters are casting ballots for 34 Senate seats, including 23 that are being defended by Democrats. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a Democrat turned independent, is retiring, and Republicans are certain to pick up that seat, which by itself could be enough to give the GOP control of the Senate if Trump wins the White House.
22: Of the 435 House seats, just 22 are considered true toss ups, including 10 held by Democrats and 12 by Republicans. Democrats hope to undo Republicans’ 2022 gains in blue states, most notably New York and California.
86 million: Nearly 86 million voters cast their ballots before Election Day, either in person (about 47 million) or by mail (about 39 million), according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.
