The critical Sun Belt state has historically backed Republican presidential candidates, but Democrats’ narrow victory in 2020 gave Kamala Harris’ campaign hopes of reclaiming it
Donald Trump has won the battleground state of Arizona in the 2024 presidential race, completing his swing-state sweep over Vice President Kamala Harris, the Associated Press reports.
Trump was declared the victor of Arizona’s 11 electoral votes on Saturday, Nov. 9, bringing his Electoral College total to 312 votes compared to Harris’ 226 votes.
Trump had already secured the presidency by the time Arizona was called, passing the winning 270-vote threshold when Wisconsin flipped red early on Wednesday morning.
Arizona was identified as one of seven key swing states that was expected to come down to razor-thin margins in the election. Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were also given leading roles in deciding the next president.
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Arizona has voted Republican in all but two presidential elections since 1948. The exceptions include 2020, when the increasingly purple state backed Democrat Joe Biden over Trump, and earlier in 1996, when it ultimately chose incumbent Democrat Bill Clinton over Republican Bob Dole.
According to Ballotopedia, Arizona has voted for the winning candidate 78.6% of the time since its initial statehood. Since 2000, it has voted for the winning candidate 66.7% of the time.
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Arizona is near-evenly divided into Republicans, Democrats, and third-party or undeclared voters, according to a July statistic — they make up 36%, 29%, and 35% of the vote, respectively.
Source people.com
