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#FridayTrivia Answer

Which state voted Republican in the presidential election and Democratic in their governor's race?

a. Delaware
b. Indiana
c. Montana
d. North Carolina

The correct answer was North Carolina!

President Donald Trump (R) carried North Carolina in the presidential race and Roy Cooper (D) was re-elected as the state's governor.

Three states—New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Vermont—elected a governor of the opposite party to the presidential candidate they backed. New Hampshire and Vermont re-elected Republican governors while voting for Joe Biden (D).

Those three states split their tickets the same way in 2016, when each of the three governors re-elected in 2020 first won office. That year, two other states split their tickets by voting for a Democratic governor and Donald Trump for president: Montana and West Virginia. Both states voted for Trump again in 2020 and elected a Republican governor.

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