Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to attendees during a campaign rally at the Mosack Group warehouse on September 25 in Mint Hill, North Carolina (Brandon Bell/Getty Images).
Former President Donald Trump won Missouri’s 10 electoral votes for the third straight election on Tuesday, easily defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Associated Press called the race at 8:50 p.m., with Trump leading Harris 51% to 47% with only 30% of precincts reporting.
In 2020, Trump won Missouri by 16 percentage points over Joe Biden. Four years earlier, he won by nearly 20 percentage points over Hillary Clinton.
Missouri’s status as a bellwether state ended in 2008, when voters narrowly rejected Democrat Barack Obama in favor of Republican John McCain. Democrats managed to win nearly every statewide office in 2012, but at the same time Republican Mitt Romney carried Missouri by nearly 10 percentage points and Republicans built a super majority in the state legislature.
Since then, the state has continued to steadily trend toward the Republicans, with every statewide office in GOP hands.