International Courant
President-elect Trump has formally gained Arizona, avenging his 2020 election loss within the essential swing state.
The race in Arizona was known as by the Related Press on Saturday night. With Arizona, Trump has secured 11 extra electoral votes, and has gained 312 electoral votes in complete. His opponent, Vice President Harris, solely garnered 226 electoral votes.
Trump’s Arizona pick-up ends the battle for swing states within the 2024 presidential election. Along with Arizona, he picked up electoral votes in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
President Biden gained the state of Arizona by lower than one-half of 1% within the 2020 election and the leads to the important thing space of Maricopa County have been additionally slim, with Biden beating Trump by 2%.
Earlier than Biden gained Arizona in 2020, Republicans had carried the state yearly since 1996.
BATTLEGROUND SERIES: ARIZONA’S 11 ELECTORAL VOTES HINGE ON KEY SWING COUNTY BIDEN WON BY A HAIR IN 2020
President-elect Trump and VP Kamala Harris (Getty Pictures)
Immigration was arguably essentially the most extremely essential challenge in Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico.
“We’ve got to have swifter incarceration on the border,” Mary from Phoenix informed Fox Information Digital final month. “And if there is a suspicion that they’ll commit against the law, lock them up.”
HARRIS RIPPED FOR ‘WORD SALAD’ AFTER HECKLER INTERRUPTION DURING CAMPAIGN SPEECH: ‘THE GIBBERISH NEVER ENDS’
Trump speaks on the Desert Diamond Area in Glendale, Ariz., Oct. 31. (AP Photograph/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Others in Arizona agreed with Harris’ message in her quite a few journeys to the state that Trump represents a menace to “Democracy.”
“Kamala, Kamala, Kamala!” a Tempe man named Bob informed Fox Information Digital. “The wealthy have been using a wave of tax cuts and never duty, and the Supreme Court docket’s been taking away the rights of the federal government companies that regulate issues. So we have to get that again in line and Kamala goes to do this as a substitute of placing extra Federalist judges up there.”
Arizona can be house to a better proportion of Hispanic voters than the remainder of the nation, and whereas they favored Biden by 19 factors within the final election, they’d proven indicators of shifting towards Trump main as much as the election.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Cardi B hugs Vice President Kamala Harris throughout a marketing campaign rally on the Wisconsin State Honest Expo in West Allis, Wis., Nov. 1. (AP Photograph/Jacquelyn Martin)
The Grand Canyon State can be voting for a brand new senator after impartial Sen. Kyrsten Sinema determined to not run for re-election this 12 months. The Republican candidate is Kari Lake, a former TV information host who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2022. The Democrats have fielded Rep. Ruben Gallego, a former Marine who represents Arizona’s third Congressional District.
Fox Information Digital’s Remy Numa and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox Information. Discover him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and e-mail tricks to [email protected].
Trump wins Arizona to comb swing states and safe 312 complete electoral votes
World Information,Subsequent Massive Factor in Public Knowledg
