[Washington DC]@realDonaldTrump Will Triumphantly Play ‘Clarinet’ In The White House
Republican Donald Trump was on the cusp of creating history as he inched closer to clinching the US presidency with a strong showing in battleground states helping him trump Ruling Democrat’s Hillary Clinton in the knife-edge race.
Clinton, 69, who grabbed the traditional Democratic strongholds of California and Virginia, was now facing a tough challenge from the 70-year-old real estate billionaire, who joined politics only 18 months ago.
“Trump moves closer to White House,” said Politico as Trump’s total of electoral college votes — as per CNN projections — touched 238, against Clinton’s 215.
To win the presidential election, a candidate needs 270 of the 538 electoral college votes.
Results were also awaited from the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconson, Minnesota, Utah, Arizona and Alaska.
Trump, who ran an improbable and often ugly campaign against the establishment, was holding on to small but significant leads in a series of key states, upending months of polling that had given the advantage to Clinton and raised Republican hopes of seizing back the White House.
Virginia, won by Clinton, has a significant Indian- American population and is home to Democratic vice- presidential nominee, Senator Tim Kaine.
In terms of overall vote percentage, Trump has so far received 48.5 per cent of the votes counted so far as against 47 per cent gained by Clinton.