Daily Egyptian Trump holds late lead WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016
DAILYEGYPTIAN.COM
SINCE 1916
VOL. 100 ISSUE 107
Editor's note: The Daily Egyptian's deadline for the print edition was 1 a.m. Wednesday. Please see dailyegyptian.com for updates.
Jill Knight | Raleigh News Observer Republican candidate for President Donald Trump campaigns at Dorton Arena Nov. 7 in Raleigh N.C. the final day before Election Day.
Donald Trump appeared poised to pull off a stunning victory early Wednesday in a bitter presidential race. Even as Hillary Clinton racked up large majorities in the nation’s diverse urban regions, Trump confounded the polls with victories in battleground states such as Florida and North Carolina. With Republicans also beating the odds in close Senate races, the party stood on the verge of having a united government. Clinton, by contrast, would probably face a unified Republican Congress if she succeeded in eking out a presidential victory. Amid unusually high turnout in several keenly contested states, Clinton received strong support from minority voters, especially Latinos, and did much better among college-educated white voters than any previous Democratic nominee. Trump, however, countered by piling up huge majorities among the non-college-educated, blue-collar whites that have long been the mainstay of his support. The result was a series of tight races in battleground states as the red swaths of the nation’s political map became much redder, even as many of the blue areas became bluer. Clinton won Virginia and Colorado, according to exit polls and nearly complete returns. Both were swing states in which her campaign had long expressed confidence. But Trump countered with apparent victories in Ohio and Florida, where his Election Day turnout wiped out a big Clinton early-vote lead. Please see TRUMP | 3