Washington, USA (DT) – United States President-elect Donald Trump won Arizona and its 11 electoral delegates, CNN and Associated Press projected Saturday.
With the win, Trump completes a sweep of all the swing states in these elections – Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina and Nevada – with a final total of 312 electoral votes compared to Kamala Harris’ 226.
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The Republican has thus flipped Arizona, which US President Joe Biden had won in the 2020 elections by 10,457 votes prompting Trump to spread unfounded conspiracy theories about election rigging, which have been floating around in the minds of many Republicans for the past four years and have come up constantly during the recent campaign.
Trump had also defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 by four points in this Sun Belt state.
Arizona had traditionally been a Republican state – Biden’s victory was only the second for a Democratic candidate in the last 28 years – but the rapid growth of the Latino population and divisions within the Republicans in that state made it difficult to recover it.
In fact, since Trump’s last victory there in 2016, Democrat Katie Hobbs was elected the governor of the state, which also has two senators and other high-level officials from the Democratic Party.
Both Harris and Trump, who polls gave a slight edge in Arizona, visited the border between this state and neighboring Mexico during the campaign to win over voters.
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