President Donald Trump once again won North Carolina, taking 16 electoral votes from the key battleground state.
At approximately 9:22 p.m. ET, Decision Desk Headquarters called The Tar Heel State for Trump. The Associated Press then reported around 11:20 p.m. ET. At the time of publication, Trump had a large lead, 50.8% to 48.1%, with 88% of votes counted.
The Green Party's Jill Stein and the Libertarian Party's Chase Oliver both received less than 0.5 percentage point.
Exit polls showed that men and women were predictably divided, with 57% of men voting for Trump and 56% of women voting for Kamala Harris. reported NBC News. Trump received about 61% of the white vote, 12% of the black vote, and 48% of the Hispanic vote.
Trump even made history. He won in Anson County, where the population is more than 44% black. Since the 1870s, Republicans have only won the county in a presidential election once.
According to According to the Associated Press, the deciding issues in North Carolina's election were the economy, immigration, abortion and health care, in that order.
Former Obama advisor David Axelrod recently said Mike Murphy of the Hacks on Tap podcast said that if Harris wins North Carolina, Trump, who held some of his last rallies in the state, “would be in serious trouble.” . It appears that Ms. Harris is currently dealing with some major problems of her own.
Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was not so lucky, trailing the state's Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein by about 13 points.
Republicans Brad Knott, Richard Hudson, Tim Moore, David Rauser, Mark Harris, Pat Harrigan, Virginia Foxx, Addison McDowell, Greg Murphy, and Chuck Edwards. They all appear to have locked down or kept their seats in the U.S. Congress.
Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect that a Republican presidential candidate has won Anson County once since the 1870s. An earlier version claimed that a Republican had not won since the 1870s.
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