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The virtual president of the United States, Donald Trump, also won the “swing state” of Arizona and the 11 electoral votes that were in dispute in that territory, according to projections on Saturday by the CNN network and the Associated Press agency.
The victory in Arizona adds to the rest of the ‘swing states’ in these elections – Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina and Nevada – where Trump also won, finally adding 312 electoral votes compared to the 226 of the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris .
Trump , who officially declared himself the winner of the US presidential election on Wednesday, thus reversing the result obtained in Arizona in 2020, when then-President Joe Biden won by 10,457 votes in the closest electoral battle for states that year.
With Maricopa County as the epicenter, Trump then took it upon himself to spread baseless conspiracy theories about election rigging, which have been brewing in the minds of many Republicans for the past four years and have come up constantly during the recent campaign.
Arizona with Latino population
In this state located in the so-called ‘Sun Belt’ , which seemed key to the outcome of the elections before the Republican tycoon won so convincingly, Trump did beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 by four points.
Arizona had historically been a Republican-leaning state — Biden’s victory was the second for a Democratic candidate in the past 28 years — but the state’s rapidly growing Latino population and divisions within Republicans made it difficult to win back the state.
Both Harris and Trump , who had a slight lead in the polls for Arizona but within the margin of error, visited the border between that state and neighboring Mexico during the campaign to captivate voters.
