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This week, Amy Walter details The Cook Political Report's first 2024 Electoral College ratings.
Amy Walter: [00:00:00] Hello, welcome to First Person, exclusive Cook Political Report content for our site license subscribers.
Well, it's here. The Electoral College ratings, the first of the 2024 season are now up on the website, and what you will notice when you look at them is how few states are in the race to determine who the president, the next president of the United States will be.
Right now, we currently list just seven states as competitive in the race for the 270 Electoral College votes that elect a president. Those seven states are familiar to folks who have been following politics for the last couple of years. None of them should be really surprising.
In the Toss Up category. Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. In the last election in [00:01:00] 2020, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin combined vote for Joe Biden was a
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