President-elect Donald Trump has officially won Arizona, completing his historic re-election victory with a battleground state sweep.
The AP called the state and its 11 electoral votes for Trump on Saturday night, leaving Trump with 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris' 226.
Joe Biden narrowly flipped Arizona in 2020, putting the state in the Democratic column for the first time in decades. But Trump reclaimed the state by a commanding margin of 52.6% to 46.4%, about 185,000 votes.
This means that Trump won all of the swing states, including Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Trump is on pace to win the popular vote, something he did not achieve in 2016 when he beat Hillary Clinton with 304 electoral votes.
His swing state sweep is part of a dominating performance nationwide that saw him expand his popularity with a broad swathe of the electorate and come within single digits of flipping some reliably Democratic states, like New Jersey and Illinois.
Trump's presidential victory was clear in the early morning of Wednesday, November 6, as Trump paved a path to 270 electoral votes through Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
He was declared president-elect on November 6, and Harris conceded the race in a defiant speech that day. News organizations did not call Nevada and Arizona until the weekend, however. Both states vote primarily by mail.
While Trump did not need either Arizona or Nevada to win the presidency, his wins expand his Electoral College margin to 312 votes and bolster his mandate to govern.
Trump narrowly lost Arizona in 2020 to Joe Biden, who won by about 10,000 votes. Until then, Republicans had won Arizona in every presidential election since 1996.
While Trump's commanding victory nationwide helped Republicans regain a Senate majority, the party lost key Senate races in many of the battleground states, including Arizona, where Trump-endorsed Republican Kari Lake fell short to Democrat Ruben Gallego. Lake also lost a governors' race in 2022.
Arizona shares a border with Mexico and was at the center of Trump's tough pitch to seal the southern border and carry out a massive deportation operation. Trump repeatedly lambasted vice president Harris for her failures as "border czar."
Trump has named Tom Homan, his former ICE director, to be his "border czar" and lead the largest mass deportation operation in history.
