Trump starting to pull ahead in electoral vote

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has begun to break through Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s Electoral College firewall, switching Ohio, Florida and Iowa from 2012 and holding on to North Carolina.

Ohio was less of a priority for the Clinton campaign, which saw victories Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Florida and North Carolina as their avenue to denying Trump the requisite 270 electoral votes. Trump has since won two of those four states.

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