New Hampshire’s four electoral votes will be awarded to former Vice President Joe Biden, according to projections.
In keeping with recent political tradition, the Granite State’s voters backed the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket. Not since 2000 has a Republican won the state, which was considered safe in the GOP column for decades.
But recent demographic changes, namely a transformation of the state’s economy and an influx of former Massachusetts and other New England residents, have made New Hampshire more competitive, and more Democratic, at the presidential level.
President Trump lost by a narrow 0.4% margin to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016 and had hoped to flip the state this year. Polling in the run-up to the election had Biden leading by over 11 points in the state…
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