Can Kamala Harris still win the election? States are still in the game

Kamala Harris is almost certain to lose in the presidential election after Donald Trump was predicted to win the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Fox News and CNN have projected Trump to win Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, giving him a total of 266 Electoral College votes, while Harris has 194.

While Nevada, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin are still undecided, 42 Electoral College votes are still up for grabs in the swing states. To win, Harris would have to win all four of those states and every other state that has not yet been called.

According to CNN, Trump is currently polling ahead of Harris in all four undeclared swing states: 51 percent in Nevada and Wisconsin, 52 percent in Michigan and 50 percent in Arizona. He won 51 percent of the vote in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Exit polls also suggest Trump could win a majority of the vote with 51 percent of the total vote and 47 percent for Harris.

Polls had shown Harris would win the popular vote, with forecaster Nate Silver giving the vice president a more than 70 percent chance of winning more votes than Trump.

However, election watchers disagreed about who would win the Electoral College, with Harris leading for most of August and September. But in early October, the vice president saw her chances sinking as Trump made gains in key battleground states.

Since then, the race has been virtually tied, with Trump slightly ahead in North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania, while Harris was ahead in Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Trump's projected victories represent a dramatic turnaround from 2020, when North Carolina was the only battleground state he won.

After predicted victories in Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, Trump announced a “great victory” Wednesday morning in West Palm Beach, Florida.

“This is a great victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again,” he told the crowd. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.”

Although Trump has declared victory, he has not yet achieved the officially required number of Electoral College votes.

Meanwhile, Harris could be on track to do worse than Hillary Clinton in 2016, who won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.

However, exit polls suggest that a majority of women (54 percent) supported Harris while men supported Trump, according to the BBC. Still, if Harris only wins 54 percent of women, that would be worse than Biden's performance in 2020, when he won 57 percent of women.