Trump wins Arizona, the last state to be called in the 2024 presidential election

PHOENIX (AP/AZFamily) – Donald Trump will carry Arizona for the first time since 2016, the Associated Press predicts, winning the state’s eleven electoral votes.

Polls showed the race between the former president and Kamala Harris in Arizona nearly tied in the days leading up to the election. with at least one poll indicating that Trump was ahead.

Both the candidates and their running mates made several visits to Arizona before the election, which remained a key electoral battleground in 2024. During his most recent visit he spent Trump made an appearance with conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson last Thursday in Glendale.

During a previous visit earlier last month in Prescott Valleythe former president proposed hiring 10,000 additional Border Patrol agents and giving them a $10,000 retention and signing bonus. He accepted an endorsement from the agents union, the National Border Patrol Council, a longtime Trump backer that backed him during his previous two campaigns.

Trump made illegal immigration the focus of his campaign and blamed Harris for a record spike in unauthorized crossings at the US-Mexico border. He regularly denounces people who enter the US illegally as invaders and criminals, and has vowed to stage the largest deportation operation in US history if he is re-elected president.

Maricopa County is by far the most influential of the state’s fifteen counties in statewide elections. It is home to Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe and Mesa and contributed nearly 62% of the vote in the 2020 presidential race. Pima County was a distant second with about 15% of the vote.

In 2020, Joe Biden defeated Trump 49.4% to 49.1%, becoming only the second Democratic presidential candidate to do so in the old Republican stronghold since 1948.

Although Arizona is now a battleground, it was not considered particularly competitive eight years ago when the country voted for Trump by a four-percentage-point margin in his race against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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