Republican nominee Donald Trump lost against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the state of Illinois Tuesday.
Both candidates campaigned hard in the state of Illinois, but Clinton always had a strong lead in polling.
Trump raised an astounding $247,541,449 in the race so far, spending nearly all of that balance. Trump entered the month of November with just a little over $15 million in the campaign’s bank account, according to Open Secrets as of Nov. 6. Clinton nearly doubled that total with $497,808,791, but had just over $62 million left over to spend in the final days of the race as of Nov. 6.
Trump went into the race with a deficit of 11.54 percentage points, according to the Real Clear statewide polling average. Trump earned 37.5 percent compared to Clinton’s 49 percent. The final poll in the state published by Emerson University revealed that Trump lost by 12 percent, earning 41 percent of the vote. Clinton earned 53 percent.
The state of Illinois has 20 electoral votes, all of which went to Democrats five times out of the past five presidential elections. Political statistician Nate Silver gave Trump a 1.7 percent chance of winning the election, and 98.3 percent chance of Clinton clinching the state. The University of Virginia Center for Politics gave the state a “safe Democratic” rating in their final prediction published Monday.
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