Absolute joker reveals why he voted for Kamala Harris

A voter in a major swing state has gone viral after telling a reporter he voted for Kamala Harris – thanks to his girlfriend.

Bryan Flores, from Charlotte, North Carolina, told CNN he wasn’t going to vote at all, but came down to a polling station after his girlfriend ‘threatened to break up with him’.

He said: ‘My girlfriend was blowing up my phone telling me to go vote, and if I didn’t, she was going to break up with me.’

After being asked if his partner was ‘seriously’ going to split with him, Mr Flores joked: ‘No, I made that up.’

Mr Flores said he voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but hadn’t planned to go vote today until his girlfriend asked him to.

‘I was going to stay home, eat some chips or something,’ he said.

As polls close across the US, millions await the outcome of one of the most closely watched presidential elections in recent history.

So far in this year’s election, the states with the largest electoral votes Kamala Harris has won includes New York, Massachusetts and Maryland.

She has also won Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and Delaware.

Meanwhile Donald Trump has won a number of states, with the ones with the most amount of electoral votes being Texas, Florida, and Tennessee.

But not all states have finished counting enough votes to declare who has won.

Often a clear winner is known within hours of the polls closing, but it can also take weeks for an official tally to be released, as each state is left to carry out their own counting procedures.

Kamala Harris can count on 226 Electoral votes this election from states that reliably vote Democratic or lean Democratic, while Trump can count on 219 Electoral votes to go his way, according to Al Jazeera.

That means Harris needs to pick up 44 more votes to reach the 270 threshold, while Trump needs 51 more.

It’s important to remember the impact of swing states in this election and what that could mean for the results. The seven ‘swing states’ together hold 93 Electoral votes.

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