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Trump won key swing states, including North Carolina and Wisconsin. And Piers Lexi-Shapittle reports another key swing state, Trump won, is Pennsylvania. With 19 electoral votes, Pennsylvania was the biggest prize of the blue wall states. And Trump's win there all but clinched his return to the White House. Both candidates saw the keystone state as critical to their success, each visiting Pennsylvania more than a dozen
times. Add spending in Pennsylvania totaled more than half a billion dollars. The Trump campaign focused its efforts on boosting turnout in the rural and rust-belt areas of the state, while also making a pitch for Latino voters. The strategy earned him a larger margin of victory than he saw in 2016. Lexi-Shapittle and Piers News. Turnout was heavy in many states. NPR's Domenico Montenarro says voters had top issues on their minds as they cast their ballots.
Voters said that the state of democracy was their biggest issue overall, about 35 percent said that. The economy was not far behind that, and 8 and 10 Republicans said so. 8 and 10 Democrats said the state of democracy was their top issue. Abortion rights came in third at 14 percent, and again almost 8 and 10 Democrats said that abortion rights was their top issue.
NPR's Domenico Montenarro reporting. Voters and 10 states faced questions about abortion on their ballots, voters in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota have chosen to keep their bands or limits on the procedure. Voters in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New York and Montana have voted to protect abortion rights, including some of them in their state constitutions. Republicans have flipped control of the U.S. Senate and will hold at least 52 seats in
the chamber next year. They've won at least two seats from the Democrats, one in Ohio, another in Montana. They seized an open-centered seat in West Virginia. There are other Senate races still outstanding, including in Arizona, and Pierce Ben Giles reports from Phoenix. Democratic Congressman Ruben Geigo maintained a lead over Republican-carry lake throughout the night. Lake Kamakka Firebrand, whose modeled her political image after Donald Trump,
is underperforming in Arizona compared to the former president. Democrats have won three consecutive races for Senate in the past six years, including a special election to replace the late Senator John McCain in 2020. This year's winner will replace outgoing Senator Kirsten Sinema, who declined to run for reelection after she would defected from the Democratic Party in 2022 and declared herself an independent Ben Giles and PR News Phoenix.
Two incoming Democratic senators will become the first black women to represent their states, Delaware's Lisa Blunt Rochester and Maryland's Angela also Brooks. They're listening to NPR News from Washington. Donald Trump is receiving congratulatory messages from around the world, including from officials who once voiced dissent with Trump. And Pierce Learn Freer reports from London.
In a statement, UK Prime Minister Kirsten Starmor congratulated Trump on what the British leader called a historic election victory and says he looks forward to working with Trump. Last month, the Trump campaign filed a legal complaint against Starmor's Center Left Labour Party, accusing it of breaking U.S. law by sending staff to campaign for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
Starmor's politics are more closely aligned with Vice President Harris's, but he had a two-hour dinner with Trump in New York this fall and pledged then to work with whomever wins the White House. His foreign secretary David Lamy, who in 2017 called Trump a racist and Nazi sympathizer, has also now sent congratulations to him. Lauren Friar and PR News London. The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Rafael is now a category two storm approaching Cuba.
Its top-sustained winds are at 100 miles per hour. It's expected to become a major hurricane before making landfall in Cuba. It's expected to lose strength and may pour heavy rain this week on the southeastern U.S. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News. This message comes from Warpie Parker, prescription eyewear that's expertly crafted and unexpectedly affordable. Glasses designed in-house from premium material starting at just $95 including prescription lenses. Stop by a Warpie Parker store near you.