According to most news services, Donald Trump wins North Carolina (15 electoral votes) while Hillary Clinton wins Oregon (7 electoral votes).
From Houston, VOA’s Greg Flakus reports that although the Lone Star State’s 38 electoral votes were a sure win for Republicans, the state is more diverse than it used to be.
Large voter turnouts in the cities were thought to favor Democrats, but the margin was not large enough to overcome votes from conservative suburban and rural areas. Texas has not provided a Democratic presidential candidate with a victory since 1976.
Polls indicated Hispanic voters were strongly in support of Clinton, or at least strongly opposed to Trump over his inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants from Mexico. But African-American voters in Texas appear to have gone to the polls in lower numbers than they did in 2008 and 2012 when Barack Obama was on the ballot.
On Tuesday night at a Houston bar, one young woman of the millennial generation looked stunned as television announcers placed Ohio and its 18 electoral votes in Trump's column. Her boyfriend, however, reminded her that there are still a number of important states undecided, including Florida.
Not long after he said that, major news outlets declared Trump the winner in Florida.
