By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
President-elect Donald J. Trump completed the Republican’s sweep of all seven swing states in the November 5 US presidential elections.
Trump has won Arizona, the final state to be called in the 2024 presidential election.
Trump, who had secured the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House by early Wednesday, now has what is expected to be a final total of 312 votes to Harris’ 226.
The win returned the state to the Republican column after Joe Biden’s 2020 victory and marked Trump’s second victory in Arizona since 2016. Trump had campaigned on border security and the economy, tying Harris to inflation and record illegal border crossings during Biden’s administration.
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign’s Arizona operation said in a statement that Trump had won the state that “Grand Canyon State voters are eager for President Trump to fix what Kamala Harris broke.”
Trump has also won the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Nevada. In 2020, Biden defeated Trump by winning six of the seven swing states – he narrowly lost North Carolina – and won 306 electoral college votes to Trump’s 232.
Trump also won 306 in his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton.
The Associated Press said Trump has won 74.6m votes nationwide, or 50.5%, to Harris’ 70.9m, or 48%.