U.S. Presidential Election 101: Everything you need to know for Nov. 5

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Biden won in 2020 thanks to victories in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- had Trump won Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin, it would have resulted in a 269-269 tie.
53% : Some states with voter ID laws also allow for "provisional ballots," where people can still cast their votes but most provide ID to an election official within a certain time frame afterwards.
39% : That happened to Trump in 2016, when he won the electoral college by 34 votes but lost the popular vote by nearly 2.8 million.
34% : What are the swing states?Most states, because of their voting tendencies and the set up of the electoral college, are assumed to be safely decided for Trump or Harris already, even before voting begins.
31% : During the 2020 election, Trump repeatedly disparaged, politicized and undermined mail voting, going as far as to block funding to the U.S. Postal Service to thwart its ability to process mail ballots he claimed without evidence were susceptible to widespread tampering.
30% : Advocates against voter ID laws say they create additional burdens for minority groups, and point to relatively low in-person voter fraud.
29% : Unlike Canada's parliamentary system, when Americans go to the polls on Nov. 5 they will vote for the president directly, casting a ballot for either Harris or Trump -- or a third-party candidate.
13% : After Trump tried to overturn his defeat in 2020 and his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, Trump had pressured Vice President Mike Pence to try and object to the results -- something the vice president has no legal standing to do.

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