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Washington –
Americans anxiously watched as the results of Tuesday’s election rolled in, revealing a deeply divided United States as a handful of critical battleground states were still being counted late into the night.
Former president Donald Trump took the battleground state of North Carolina, sending a warning signal to Democrats still holding hope that Vice-President Kamala Harris could still take Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“If you had asked me earlier I would have said cautiously optimistic .I think seeing the numbers come in, I am feeling more trepidation,” said Alessia Stewart at a watch party in Washington where disappointment echoed through the room each time Trump showed gains. “But still trying to hold on to some optimism.”
Harris’s campaign chair sent a memo to staff late Tuesday that the Midwestern “blue wall” states were the …
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