Washington:
Donald Trump on Saturday received Arizona, finishing the Republican’s sweep of all seven swing states within the November 5 US presidential elections. He retained the state and its 11 electoral votes to the Republican column after Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
Trump’s win over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris additionally marks the 78-year-old’s second victory in Arizona since 2016.
In 2020, Biden turned the second Democrat to win Arizona in 70 years.
In keeping with the newest figures, Trump has to date obtained 312 electoral votes, effectively previous the 270 wanted to win the race to the White Home. Throughout his profitable presidential marketing campaign in 2016, he obtained 304 electoral votes.
US media have declared Trump the winner in additional than half of the 50 states, together with swing states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, all of which voted Democratic within the final election. He additionally received the battleground states of North Carolina and Nevada.
Trump received wider margins than earlier than, regardless of a prison conviction and two impeachments whereas in workplace.
However, Harris, who changed 81-year-old Biden because the Democrat nominee in July, stands at 226.
With Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris, Republican and Democratic presidents will alternate management of the White Home for the fourth straight time period, a degree of volatility between the events not seen in the US because the late nineteenth century.
Biden, who dropped out of the race over age considerations, will meet Trump on the Oval Workplace on Wednesday.