Trump takes Wisconsin, clinches presidency, CBS News projects

Former President Donald Trump has won Wisconsin, CBS News projects, giving him a total of 276 electoral votes, 6 more than the 270 needed to reclaim the White House. Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes

With 99% of the vote in, Trump led Vice President Kamala Harris in the state by just 1 percentage point.

He ended Democrats’ decades-long winning streak in Wisconsin in 2016 when he beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by less than a percentage point. Before then, Democrats won the state in every presidential election since 1988. But President Biden prevailed in this battleground state in 2020, defeating Trump by less than a percentage point. 

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