Trump takes Iowa
Donald Trump is projected to defeat Hillary Clinton in Iowa, flipping a state that had gone Democratic in six of the last seven White House races.
{mosads}The win gives Trump six electoral votes.
Trump’s campaign focused on the Hawkeye State down the stretch in the campaign as he looked to hold on to his slim edge in the polls.
The GOP nominee was in Sioux City on Sunday, his seventh stop in the state during the general election. Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence was also in the state last week for the last of his many campaign trips.
Trump suffered his first defeat of the campaign in Iowa, losing the GOP presidential caucuses there to Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) in February.
The Hawkeye State was the site of Clinton’s first win of 2016, in the state’s Democratic caucuses.
President Obama won the state in 2008 and 2012, and President Bill Clinton won it in 1992 and 1996.
Prior to 1988, Iowa was reliably Republican going back more than a century.
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