By Maria Ortiz
09 Nov 2024, 11:43 PM EST
donald trump won the elections in Arizonaas projected by The Associated Press, completing its victories in the seven key states to decide the winner of the elections. 2024 presidential election.
With this final victory in Arizona, Trump obtains 11 electoral votes, which gives him a total of 312 compared to Harris’ 226.
On Saturday night, when the votes were still being counted, Trump led by a margin of 52.6 to 46.4 percentage pointsand 87% of Arizona jurisdictions had reported their results.
The former president, now president-elect, leads Harris by 184,935 votes statewide, with approximately 483,131 ballots still to be counted.
Trump won Arizona in 2016 and narrowly lost to President Biden in the 2020 election.
Trump secured his return to the White House on Wednesday morning, making a remarkable comeback after his 2020 re-election loss.
He swept all seven battleground states and improved on his 2020 margins in many places across the country to achieve a decisive victory.
Trump makes history as the second president in US history elected to serve two non-consecutive presidential terms.
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