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PHOENIX — President-elect Donald Trump has won Arizona — scoring a comeback in the Grand Canyon State after losing it to President Biden in 2020 and completing a 2024 swing-state sweep.. The ...
(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump was declared the winner Saturday night in Arizona, marking the final swing state for the Republican to collect in his landslide victory.
The Grand Canyon State went for Trump in 2016 by 3.5… Arizona is one of seven swing states that held the key to whether Trump or Vice President Harris returned to the White House. Trump flips ...
In 2020, President Joe Biden carried the state narrowly over Trump, but he won Maricopa County by a margin of 50 percentage points to 48. On Saturday, Trump was leading Harris 52 to 47. The AP only declares a winner once it can determine that a trailing candidate can’t close the gap and overtake the vote leader.
Formerly a moderately red state in the American Southwest, Trump won Arizona in 2016 by 3.5%, a major drop in margin of Republican victory in the traditional GOP stronghold compared to previous cycles, despite an overall more favorable year for Republicans than the previous two presidential elections. Biden narrowly won in Arizona in 2020 by 0.3%.
President Biden won the state of Arizona by less than one-half of 1% in the 2020 election and the results in the key area of Maricopa County were also slim, with Biden beating Trump by 2%.
This is the closest presidential election in Arizona history, surpassing the previous closest of 1964, in which Barry Goldwater won the state by just under a single percentage point. Trump carried Arizona in 2016 by 3.5%, and it was considered a vital battleground in this election.
Since Arizona's admission to the Union in February 1912, [1] it has participated in 28 United States presidential elections.. Since the 1950s, Arizona has been considered a stronghold state for the Republican Party, with the party carrying the state in all subsequent elections except 1996 and 2020 (and even then, Democrats won with narrow pluralities). [2]