Kamala Harris wins Minnesota, CBS News projects
Minnesota's 10 electoral college votes will be going to Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, CBS News projects.
CBS News also projects former President Donald Trump will win the presidency, defeating Harris to become the 47th president of the United States.
No Republican candidate for president has won Minnesota since 1972. Polling averages showed Harris leading former President Donald Trump by 4.7 percentage points going into Election Day, according to Real Clear Politics, which indicated that that streak looked likely to continue this year.
But Trump came within striking distance in 2016, narrowly losing by 1.5 points to Hillary Clinton and transformed the map, flipping rural counties that voted for President Barack Obama in 2012 in his favor, mirroring similar trends across the country. Trump lost the state by less than 45,000 votes in the 2016 election.
President Joe Biden then won by seven points four years later, though the county-by-county breakdown was mostly unchanged.
Minnesota has had 10 Electoral College votes since 1964. It peaked at 12 votes from 1912 to 1928, and it had just four at its inaugural presidential election in 1860.
While the state's 10 votes don't represent the largest pool from the Midwest, the state has become one of only two reliably blue bastions for the Democratic Party, alongside Illinois, as Michigan and Wisconsin have proven battlegrounds in a number of recent contests.
