Trump races ahead leaving Clinton behind
posted on Nov 9, 2016 @ 10:20AM
As the world is keenly following the US presidential election 2016 and is waiting for the verdict with bated breath, projections now show the Republican candidate Donald Trump taking the lead again over Hillary Clinton. Both candidates scored early victories in states where they were expected to win. Trump captured conservative states in the South and Midwest, while Clinton swept several states on the East Coast and Illinois in the Midwest. Reaction to the prospect of a Trump presidency rippled across the globe, with financial markets abroad falling as American television networks raised the prospect that Mrs. Clinton might lose. Asian markets were trading sharply lower, down around two percentage points, and in the United States, Dow Jones futures were down as much as 600 points in after-hours trading. According to projection reports coming in Trump now has 244 electoral votes while his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton has 209.