Donald Trump came out on top in North Carolina on Tuesday night, dealing a crushing blow to Hillary Clinton and inching closer to the 270 electoral votes needed to claim the White House.
Networks
called the race just after 11 p.m., hours after the polls closed. With
about 93 percent of the vote in, the billionaire Republican had 51.1
percent of the vote to 46.1 for Mrs. Clinton,
winning a state the Clinton campaign had poured time, resources, and
money into over the final weeks of the campaign. With the victory, Mr. Trump claims 15 electoral votes.
North Carolina had become one of the biggest battlegrounds of the 2016, with both the Trump and Clinton campaigns identifying the state as a necessity.
Mrs. Clinton,
for example, held her final campaign rally of the cycle in the state,
stopping in for a late-night speech in Raleigh on Monday. President
Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Sen. Bernard Sanders and other
key Democratic surrogates also had become mainstays in the state over
the past several months.
Mr. Trump also visited the state on Monday, hoping to pry the state away from Mrs. Clinton.
Polls have shown a dead heat in North Carolina over the past several weeks. The most recent Real Clear Politics
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