Trump wins Arizona in 2024 presidential election, completing a swing-state sweep

PHOENIX — President-elect Donald Trump has won Arizona — scoring a comeback successful nan Grand Canyon State aft losing it to President Biden successful 2020 and completing a 2024 swing-state sweep.

The Republican leads Vice President Kamala Harris 52.1% to 47%, pinch 67% of votes counted, nan Associated Press reports.

Trump’s triumph successful Arizona, pinch its 11 electoral votes, follows that successful neighboring Nevada, wherever he picked up 6 — a feat nary Republican has completed successful 20 years.

Both candidates made their last trips to nan southwestern plaything authorities connected Halloween, haunting Arizonans pinch their contrasting visions of really scary America could get if their force won.

Trump teed up voters astatine Glendale’s Desert Diamond arena pinch promises of “a very ample deportation,” and reminisced connected his clip successful office.

“We defeated ISIS, we had nary wars. We had nan champion system successful nan history of our country,” he told nan crowd Thursday.

Meanwhile, Harris promised advancement to a Phoenix crowd, and urged voters to thief her “turn nan page connected Donald Trump.”

“I show you I americium not looking to people governmental points. I americium looking to make progress… Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t judge that group who disagree pinch maine are nan enemy,” nan veep said Thursday.

Throughout run season, though, nan separator was a champion for nan candidates’ stump speeches successful nan Grand Canyon state, which has been afflicted pinch hundreds of thousands of migrant encounters successful caller years, and battles becoming a conduit for trafficking fentanyl and different narcotics complete nan border.

On nan stump successful Arizona, Trump promised wide deportations while Harris’ talking points honed successful connected a legislature separator measure that was changeable down respective months ago.

Both Trump and Harris made visits to nan confederate border, including Harris’ notable sojourn to Douglas, Arizona, connected Sept. 27 pursuing scrutiny for her domiciled successful nan Biden administration’s separator policies.

“I will do much to unafraid our border, to trim forbidden separator crossings,” Harris said successful Douglas. “I will return further action to support nan separator closed betwixt ports of entry.” 

“Those who transverse our borders unlawfully will beryllium apprehended and removed and barred from re-entering for 5 years,” she added astatine nan time.

Arizona’s system was besides a apical issue, arsenic value levels stay precocious pursuing 13.3% ostentation successful 2022.

Marc Hernandez, a 25-year-old rancher who voted for Donald Trump aft backing Biden successful 2020, told The Post nan system motivated his vote.

“After graduation, I began moving connected my family’s cattle ranch and nan system has been really unsmooth connected ranchers and farmers these past fewer years. Inflation has eaten up astir of our profits and we had to fto immoderate of our ranchers go. We besides person issues pinch h2o and powerfulness rates going up,” Hernandez said.

However, Democrats touted Arizona’s increasing organization and economical opportunities arsenic reasons to backmost them connected nan issue, specified arsenic promoting nan CHIPS and Science Act, which subsidizes nan semiconductor manufacture that plays a awesome domiciled successful nan state’s economy.

Abortion was besides apical of mind and a cardinal run rumor for Democrats successful Arizona, wherever a proposition to amend nan authorities constitution to admit abortion arsenic a “fundamental right” is besides connected nan ballot astatine nan authorities level.

When it came to nan separator and nan economy, it prompted Democrats to entreaty to nan blimpish argumentation leanings of galore Arizonans connected nan issue. Harris besides heavy pushed a “Republicans for Harris” conjugation focused connected targeting supporters of erstwhile Republican Sen. John McCain and those who voted for erstwhile United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley aft she dropped retired of nan 2024 Republican primary.

Meanwhile, Arizona was a cardinal constituent for Trump’s efforts to build his ain large tent, arsenic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exited nan title successful August and endorsed nan ex-prez astatine a rally successful Glendale hours later. He besides made an effort to tribunal young voters pinch a rally astatine Mullet Arena astatine Arizona State University successful Tempe past weekend.

Harris besides saw nan authorities arsenic an opportunity to rally Hispanic voters, including making her closing transportation astatine a rally successful westbound Phoenix pinch nan set Los Tigres Del Norte.

President Biden narrowly won nan authorities successful 2020. In 2016, Trump won pinch 48% of nan vote.

Early voting was pushed heavy by some parties, including by Trump, successful hopes of “banking” nan ballot and speeding up nan ballot counting process.

Arizona GOP Chairwoman Gina Swoboda antecedently told The Post that early voting was nan cardinal to nan party’s strategy.

“Unless Democrats drastically alteration their [voting] behaviour by Tuesday, I deliberation we’re successful a very bully position to triumph astatine nan apical of nan ticket,” Swoboda said past week.

Polling indicated that nan authorities was a patient toss-up, but Trump did person a flimsy separator successful various polls successful nan weeks starring up to nan election.