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Donald Trump sweeps reliably red Tennessee

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Former President Donald Trump has once again won the state of Tennessee and its 11 electoral votes in the race for president. 

Trump won Tennessee by 64% — an even larger margin than in both 2016 and 2020. The state has consistently supported Republican nominees in the last few decades. 

President Bill Clinton was the last Democratic nominee to win over Tennessee, in 1992 and 1996. Tennessean Al Gore was his vice president. Yet when Gore ran for president in 2000, he lost the state and the contest to George W. Bush.

Paige Pfleger, Criminal Justice Reporter

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

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