Former President Donald Trump has received North Carolina, taking the state’s 16 electoral votes, CBS Information initiatives.
Democrats have lengthy eyed North Carolina as a battleground state within the race for president, although the final time a Democratic presidential candidate received North Carolina was in 2008, when Barack Obama narrowly beat John McCain.
With 97% of jurisdictions reporting, as of two:30 a.m. ET, Trump maintains a lead of about 3.3 proportion factors as vote-counting continues.
