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Although the final vote totals will be fairly close, Trump won all seven key battleground states, and swept the "blue wall" across the Midwest.

The stakes are especially high in California’s battleground districts, where voters could determine which party will control the House of Representatives next year.

Exit polls showed Trump winning large numbers of Latino men in key battleground states, improving his numbers with that group in Pennsylvania from 27% to 42%.

“The whole country moved to the right, but compared to the rest of the country, the battleground states saw the least amount of movement in his direction. It was closest in the places we competed.”

Some 10,000 North Korean troops are in Russia near the Ukraine battleground.