Clinton wins Rhode Island and Massachusetts

By: The Associated Press

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Democrat Hillary Clinton has won Rhode Island in the presidential race, soundly defeating Republican Donald Trump in the contest for the state’s four electoral votes.            

Clinton’s win on Tuesday is not a surprise in the Democratic-leaning state, where voters typically favor Democrats for statewide office and president.               

It has been 32 years since a Republican presidential candidate took the state. The last candidate to do so was Ronald Reagan in 1984.              

Trump won April’s GOP primary in Rhode Island by a large margin, and Clinton lost by nearly 12 percentage points to Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.        

Still, Clinton received significantly more votes than Trump did then.                 

The number of registered Democrats in Rhode Island is three times the number of registered Republicans, although independents outnumber them both.

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