Trump’s whole electoral school depend strikes to 312 to Vice President Kamala Harris’s 226.
President-elect Donald Trump has received Arizona, finishing a sweep of all seven battleground within the 2024 election.
The Related Press known as the race at 9:21 p.m. ET on Nov. 9. With this win, Trump’s whole electoral school depend strikes to 312 to Vice President Kamala Harris’s 226.
Trump was projected to win the election on the morning of Nov. 6. Harris conceded the race later the identical day.
Trump’s Arizona victory follows candidate Joe Biden’s upset win within the state in 2020, a 0.3-percent squeaker that marked the primary time since Invoice Clinton’s 1996 win that The Grand Canyon State had voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. In 2016, Trump received Arizona by 3.5 proportion factors.
Maricopa County, the place 62 p.c of the state’s 7.4 million residents, and greater than half its 4.367 million voters, stay, proved pivotal. Trump received the Phoenix-area vote CC to CC p.c, based on the Maricopa County Elections Division.
Trump fared higher in the important thing county than in 2016 when he received it with lower than 48 p.c and in 2020 when he misplaced it with 47.65 p.c, turning into the primary GOP presidential candidate to lose Maricopa County in 72 years.
As in Nevada, profitable the Latino vote drives Arizona campaigns, particularly in Maricopa County the place one-third of voters are Hispanic, in comparison with lower than 19 p.c nationally.
Whereas many media declared Trump the winner of Arizona’s 11 Electoral School votes within the previous days, the AP withheld doing so till all mail-in ballots had been counted. Reported outcomes had not modified a lot for greater than a day by late-afternoon Nov. 8.
On Nov. 7, the Arizona Secretary of State’s workplace added tens of hundreds of votes to the tally, however stated there have been tons of of hundreds of ballots left to depend, together with practically 500,000 in Maricopa County. Subsequently, the presidential race and the U.S. Senate contest between Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Kari Lake remained too near name by late afternoon Nov. 8.
At 5 p.m. EST—2 p.m. PST—on Nov. 8, these numbers, largely frozen for greater than a day, had Trump with 1.4 million votes, 52.5 p.c of the entire tally, to Harris’s 1.2 million votes, or 46.5 p.c.
Regardless of the president-elect’s 161,000 vote lead, a major 6 proportion level benefit, since most Arizona voters forged ballots by mail, and counting usually takes days. the AP withheld the decision till it was mathematically inconceivable for Harris to beat Trump’s lead.
The Related Press contributed to this report.