US President Donald Trump won the Alaska state election on Wednesday, bringing his electoral college tally to 217 after winning three electoral votes.
The Republican Party has also retained the Senate seat, giving the party 50 seats in the 100-member United States Senate.
When the Alaska election was called, Trump had received 56.9 percent of the total votes counted and President-elect Joe Biden of the Democratic Party with 39.1 percent.
With this, Trump’s electoral college vote count has risen to 217, according to the tally kept by The New York Times.
Biden has already been declared the winner with 279 of the 538 electoral college votes. Trump has refused to budge and has filed lawsuits in several states, challenging the election results.
The election results in Alaska also gave the Republican Party an edge over Democrats in the Senate. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan won his Senate reelection bid. This gives Republicans 50 Senate seats, while Democrats have 48. The two Senate seats go to the January 5 election.
“President Trump and Senate Republicans win Alaska, overwhelmingly and by a massive 20 point difference!” Ivanka Trump, Trump’s daughter and presidential adviser, said in a tweet.
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