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Donald Trump carries Kansas, Missouri in presidential race

Posted at 8:21 PM, Nov 08, 2016
and last updated 2016-11-09 01:48:10-05

Republican Donald Trump has fulfilled expectations that he'd carry Kansas and in the presidential election.

KANSAS

The election Tuesday confirmed the state's status as a GOP stronghold in national elections. The last Democratic presidential nominee to carry the state was Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

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The brash New York businessman was always considered likely to pick up the state's six electoral votes even though Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won the state's GOP caucuses in March and many top GOP officials backed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

While lukewarm in their support for Trump, many Kansas Republicans couldn't stomach voting for Democratic nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Former President Bill Clinton averaged less than 35 percent of the vote in Kansas in his presidential races in 1992 and 1996.

MISSOURI 

Republican Donald Trump has carried Missouri, marking the fifth straight presidential election won by the GOP candidate in the Show-Me State.
 
Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.
 
Missouri was once considered a bellwether state in presidential politics. From 1904 through the 2004 election, Missouri sided with the winner every time but once, in 1956, when Democrat Adlai Stevenson carried Missouri in a race won by incumbent Republican Dwight Eisenhower.
 
But since 2000, Missouri has been carried by the Republican candidates: George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, John McCain in 2008, Mitt Romney in 2012 and Trump this year.