Hillary Clinton has won Rhode Island and its four electoral votes.
It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
Rhode Island has voted for Republicans for president only four times since 1928.
In 2012, President Barack Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the state by about 27 percent.
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Donald Trump has won Alabama and its nine electoral votes after Sen. Jeff Sessions endorsed the billionaire candidate.
That brings Trump’s total in the Electoral College to 60 votes, to Clinton’s 44 votes.
It takes 270 votes to win the presidency.
The results continue the state’s streak of voting for Republicans every presidential election since 1980.
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Donald Trump has won Tennessee and its 11 electoral votes.
Tuesday’s vote is the fifth presidential contest in a row in which the state voted for the Republican candidate. That includes the 2000 election, when native son Al Gore lost the state to Republican George W. Bush.
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Donald Trump has won South Carolina.
The Republican nominee was awarded the state’s nine electoral votes, giving him 40 for the night. The result was expected as the state has long been a Republican stronghold.
Republican Donald Trump has won West Virginia and its five electoral votes.
The Mountain State was one of the billionaire’s biggest supporters in the Republican primary. He is popular for promising to bring back coal jobs. Hillary Clinton had largely been largely shunned for making comments perceived as an affront to the industry.
The dynamic has resulted in one of the few states where Republicans didn’t shy from the brash businessman and instead looked to ride his coattails. Many Democrats for congressional and other races scrambled to distance themselves from Clinton and refused to endorse her.
West Virginia has voted for Republican presidential candidates in each of the last four presidential races.
It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
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