US President-elect Donald Trump has received the election in Arizona, defeating his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in all seven battleground states.
The seven battleground states on this election cycle have been Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia.
The victory in Arizona took Trump’s electoral school tally to 312 in opposition to 226 of Vice President Harris. Arizona holds 11 electoral school votes.
The Republican Get together has regained management of the Senate and is all set to retain a majority within the Home of Representatives.
At the moment, the celebration has 52 seats within the Senate and the Democrats have 47.
Within the Home, Republicans have thus far received 216 seats in opposition to 209 of the Democrats. The bulk mark is 218. Republicans are assured that they may get the mandatory variety of seats to cross the midway mark.
In 2020, President Joe Biden turned the primary Democrat to win Arizona since Invoice Clinton in 1996. Trump has now flipped it again.
He campaigned closely on border safety, immigration and crime dedicated by unlawful immigrants on the path, all points that resonated within the state with a report inflow of migrants final yr.
Trump pledged mass deportations, promoted hiring an extra 10,000 border brokers to patrol the US-Mexico border and promised to make use of a number of the army finances for border funding.
Arizona is the sixth state Trump has flipped from Biden’s Electoral Faculty victory in 2020.
The opposite Biden-won states the place Trump prevailed this yr are Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump additionally received North Carolina, a state he carried narrowly in 2020
Trump will likely be sworn in because the forty seventh President of america on January 20.
