President-elect Donald Trump take it away the battleground state of Arizona, deepening his Electoral College lead win with one final vote count of 312 votes for Trump as Vice President Kamala Harris226 votes.
With his victory in the Grand Canyon State, Trump won all seven swing states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—a marked improvement over his run in 2020 . that election, the then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden picked six out of seven, with Trump taking only North Carolina.
The battle for the coveted electoral college votes and the strategy of how to win them dominated much of both Harris and Trump’s contests.
While the state is still reaching final totals in Arizona, voters appear to have split their votes between the President, the Senate and ballot initiatives. The red-faced state supports Trump, passing Proposition 139—abortion Ballot initiative ensure access to a pregnant person’s physical or mental health until approximately 24 weeks or later—and ready elect the Democratic Party Ruben Gallego about Trump’s representative Kari Lake.
“Trump’s victory in Arizona also marked the transformation of the Republican Party in the state from being the home of Republican Party establishment figures like the late Sen. John McCain to the cradle of Trump’s MAGA movement ,” Politico’s Meridith McGraw wrote. President Biden is the first Democrat to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1996. And Trump, who now has 53% of the vote in Arizona, took the vote back.
Republican Party also Big win in the Senate this cycle — has picked up three seats so far and enters 2025 with at least 52 Republican senators.
Democrats’ final chance to block the Republican presidency, Senate and House depends on the 17 remaining House races, most of which are contested “in competitive districts.” in Western states, where the pace of ballot counting is often slower than in the rest of the United States.” country” according to Reuters.
If Republicans lead in the White House and both chambers of Congress, they could have plenty of time to enact parts of Project 2025, GOP handbook What will Trump’s presidency look like?
“Project 2025,” each New York Times“introduces plans to criminalize pornography, disband the Departments of Commerce and Education, reject the idea of abortion as a health care measure, and dismantle climate protections.” It also “calls the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the National Weather Service, ‘one of the key drivers of the climate change warning industry.’ And they support deploying the military ‘to support arrest operations’ along the US-Mexico border.”
Trump has denied connection to the controversial policy project, although much of the plan is being driven by people who have previously served as his advisers and will likely hold key roles in the next administration. according to. Early Wednesday morning, as the former president edged closer to victory, one of the first groups to congratulate him was the Heritage Foundation, the organization leading Project 2025.
“The entire conservative movement is united behind him,” Kevin Robertspresident of the organization, said in a statement, noting that, “as he prepares to secure our open borders, restore the rule of law, put parents back in charge of educating their children, returning America to its rightful place as a manufacturing leader, putting families and children first, and dismantling the deep state.”
