President-elect Donald Trump took the battleground state of Arizona, additional deepening his Electoral School victory with a final tally of 312 votes for Trump to Vice President Kamala Harris’s 226 votes.
With the Grand Canyon State win, Trump secured all seven swing states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—a stark enchancment from his run in 2020. Throughout that election, then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden picked up six out of the seven, with Trump solely taking North Carolina.
The combat for these coveted battleground electoral school votes and the technique of easy methods to declare them dominated a lot of each Harris’s and Trump’s runs.
Whereas the state remains to be reaching its remaining totals in Arizona, voters appeared to separate their votes between President, Senate, and poll initiatives. The state went crimson for Trump, handed Proposition 139—the abortion poll initiative that ensures entry till round 24 weeks or later for the psychological or bodily well being of the pregnant particular person—and is poised to elect Democrat Ruben Gallego over Trump surrogate Kari Lake.
“Trump’s win in Arizona additionally marks a metamorphosis of the GOP within the state from being the house of Republican institution figures just like the late Sen. John McCain to the cradle of Trump’s MAGA motion,” Politico’s Meridith McGraw wrote. President Biden was the primary Democrat to win the state since Invoice Clinton in 1996. And Trump, who at the moment has 53% of the vote in Arizona, took it again.
The GOP additionally won big in the Senate this cycle—choosing up three seats to date and getting into into 2025 with a minimum of 52 Republican senators.
Democrats’ final likelihood at thwarting a Republican presidency, Senate, and Home of Representatives relies on the remaining 17 Home races, most of that are “in aggressive districts in Western states the place the tempo of vote counting is usually slower than in the remainder of the nation,” in line with Reuters.
If Republicans lead within the White Home and each chambers of Congress, they might have immense leeway to enact components of Mission 2025, the GOP playbook for what Trump’s presidency should seem like.
“Mission 2025,” per the New York Instances, “lays out plans for criminalizing pornography, disbanding the Commerce and Training departments, rejecting the thought of abortion as well being care and shredding local weather protections.” It additionally “calls out the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which incorporates the Nationwide Climate Service, as ‘one of many foremost drivers of the local weather change alarm business.’ And it backs deploying the army ‘to help in arrest operations’ alongside the U.S.-Mexico border.”
Trump has denied a connection to the controversial coverage undertaking, regardless of a lot of the plan being pushed by individuals who beforehand served as his advisers and would probably maintain vital roles within the subsequent administration. Early Wednesday morning, as the previous president approached victory, one of many first teams to congratulate him was the Heritage Basis, which spearheaded Mission 2025.
“The whole conservative motion stands united behind him,” Kevin Roberts, the inspiration’s president, stated in an announcement, noting, “as he prepares to safe our wide-open border, restore the rule of regulation, put mother and father again answerable for their youngsters’s training, restore America to its correct place as a frontrunner in manufacturing, put households and youngsters first, and dismantle the deep state.”
