President-elect Donald Trump won Arizona, sweeping all seven swing states this election season.
The battleground state was called just before 9.30 p.m. on Saturday, making it the final call in the 2024 election.
The expected victory is a feather in Trump’s cap because it means he won all seven swing states over Vice President Kamala Harris and turned Arizona red after losing narrowly to Biden in 2020.
Trump’s Arizona victory comes hours after he was determined to have won Nevada, earning him six electoral votes.
Arizona’s 11 electoral votes shifted Trump’s column even further over the 270 threshold, putting the final tally at 312 electoral votes for Trump compared 226 for Harris.
Four years ago Biden won the historically red state by just 10,000 votes. The 2020 Democratic victory marked the second time the state voted blue since 1948.
The razor-thin margin in 2020 brought Arizona to the forefront of Trump’s election fraud allegations, culminating in the January 6 Capitol brawl and, ultimately, a federal criminal lawsuit against the former president over his attempts to alter the election results.
Jack Smith, the special counsel supervising the federal case, is thought to be considering ways to close one case as well as another involving Trump’s handling of secret documents before to his inauguration.
Smith will let the court know his plans for the 2020 election case by early December after assessing “this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy,” he wrote in a November 8 filing. Meanwhile, Trump has vowed mass pardons for those convicted of January 6-related offenses.
During the campaign, Trump tied the Biden-Harris administration to inflation and the border situation, which proved to be a winning argument for the former president.
As election day approached, Harris’ hopes of winning hinged on capturing the “blue wall” of Rust Belt battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. However, she fell short in all three occasions.
