Trump easily won Nebraska's four other electoral votes Tuesday, but the outcome of the 2nd congressional district remained unclear until well after midnight.Democrat Barack Obama won the district in 2008 — the first time the state's electoral votes had ever been split under a state law that allows the division of its five Electoral College votes.
Nebraska and Maine are the only states where it's possible to divide electoral votes between presidential candidates.
Clinton had hoped to become the second presidential candidate to shave off an electoral vote in the heavily conservative Nebraska, visiting Omaha in August and appearing with billionaire Warren Buffett.
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