Clinton takes California (55 electoral votes) and Hawaii (4). Trump wins Idaho (4).
Financial markets continue to drop as Donald Trump racks up victories in states he wasn’t projected to win.
Dow futures have plummeted nearly 750 points, according to MarketWatch. The financial site reports that, in Asia, “stocks opened sharply lower,” with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index down 607 points or 2.7 percent, to 22,299. The Nikkei 225 slid 783 points, or 4.5 percent, at 16,387.
The Mexican peso also has sunk by more than 11 percent, hitting a record low of 20.30 pesos to the dollar.
Florida voters have chosen Trump. The southeastern state is a prize big enough to tip an election, with a whopping 29 electoral votes. One of the swingiest of swing states, it has 4.4 million registered Republicans, 4.6 million registered Democrats and 3 million independent voters. Florida held the nation in suspense over the 2000 contest between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore, with the vote count so close it went to the U.S. Supreme Court for a decision. In 2012, Obama won Florida by less than 1 percent of the vote.