Trump wins key battleground state of Florida, taking 29 electoral votes

President Donald Trump is projected to win Florida’s 29 electoral votes, repeating his 2016 success and overcoming the first major challenge to winning reelection.

CNN and NBC followed suit shortly after AP declared Florida for the incumbent president. Trump has scored 51.2 percent of the votes in the state, with more than 95 percent of the votes counted, CNN said.

With its high Electoral College vote count, Florida is historically considered one of the key hurdles a candidate needs to clear on the path to the White House.

Trump’s performance in Florida seems to defy some of the polls that predicted a narrow Biden lead in the state in the days leading up to Election Day.

Trump currently has a comfortable lead over Joe Biden in other crucial states for an Electoral College victory, the traditionally Republican Party-leaning Texas (38 Electoral votes) and the battleground state of Pennsylvania (20 Electoral votes).

Biden, however, is still ahead of Trump in the overall projected Electoral College vote tally, according to AP. The Democratic Party hopeful has remained optimistic, saying he is “on track to win this election.”

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