The state has nine electoral votes at stake in the presidential race.
ABC News projects, Donald Trump, will win in South Carolina.
Voters go to the polls in South Carolina on November 3, a state with nine electoral votes at stake in the presidential race.
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It is once again a reliable red state in this cycle – it has long sided with Republicans in the race for the White House.
State Significance
Four years ago, then-candidate Donald Trump beat the state by 14 percentage points over Hillary Clinton, increasing the margin for Republicans compared to the party’s two previous nominees. Both Mitt Romney in 2012 and John McCain in 2008 won the state by about 10 points. Palmetto’s state has not voted for a Democrat since 1976.
Trump is expected to capture South Carolina once again against former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate.
Despite being a Republican fortress at the top of the ticket, at the Senate level, acting Senator Lindsey Graham is stuck in a tighter than expected dispute with Jaime Harrison, the first black president of the Democratic Party of South Carolina. Down on the ballot, Democratic Rep. Joe Cunningham is running for re-election in the first congressional district, which extends along the state’s east coast and includes Charleston, after winning the seat in 2018 – the first Democrat to do so since the 1980s. . He is facing Nancy Mace, a state deputy and the first woman to graduate from the Citadel.
* Counties are colored red or blue when the percentage of expected vote reports reaches a certain limit. This limit varies by state and is based on past vote reporting standards and expectations on how votes will be reported this year.