After four days of counting in the heavily Hispanic southwestern state, CNN and NBC estimated that Trump had 11 electoral votes while defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.

Incumbent Joe Biden scored a narrow but crucial victory in Arizona in 2020 that doomed Trump to defeat after his first term.

The scale and strength of Trump’s comeback, which also saw the real estate mogul win the popular vote by a margin of about four million votes, sent shockwaves through the losing side of the Democratic Party.

Republicans have already regained control of the Senate and appear well poised to retain a majority in the House of Representatives thanks to support from white working-class voters and a large portion of Hispanics.

CNN called for Republican wins for 213 House seats, with 218 needed for a majority in the lower house.

Network figures show the Democrats with 205 seats, although senior party figures still hope they can pull off a narrow victory that would significantly reduce Trump’s powers.

NBC sees Republicans with 212 seats so far and 204 for Democrats.

The other six swing states won by Trump in the presidential race are Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada and Georgia.

The latest good news for Trump came when the White House said Biden would meet with the president-elect at the White House on Wednesday.

Trump — who has never conceded a 2020 loss — sealed a remarkable return to the presidency in the Nov. 5 vote, cementing what is expected to be more than a decade of American politics dominated by his hard-right stance .

This type of meeting between the outgoing and incoming presidents was considered common, but Trump did not invite Biden for one after he made unsubstantiated claims of election fraud that culminated in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

Trump also broke with precedent by skipping Biden’s inauguration, but the White House said the Democratic president would attend the next ceremony.

Biden’s meeting with Trump will take place in the Oval Office, the White House said Saturday, with the clock ticking until the former president returns to power.

Trump, the 78-year-old former TV star, won by larger margins than before despite a criminal conviction, two impeachments and warnings from his former chief of staff that he was a fascist.

Exit polls showed voters’ top concerns remained the economy and inflation, which has risen under Biden in the wake of the Covid pandemic.

The 81-year-old president, who dropped out of the White House race in July amid concerns about his age, health and mental acuity, called Trump on Wednesday to congratulate him on winning the election.

– Trump 2.0 –

Democrats pointed the finger of blame for Harris’ decisive loss after she supplanted Biden at the top of the ticket about 100 days before the election.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took aim at Biden, telling The New York Times that “if the president had gotten out earlier, there might have been other candidates in the race.”

As Democrats weigh what went wrong, Trump has begun assembling his second administration, naming campaign manager Susie Wiles to be White House chief of staff.

She is the first woman to be appointed to a major role and the first Republican appointment in his new administration.

– Job Jockey –

Trump on Saturday ruled out reappointing two senior figures from his first administration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Abrasive former ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell is seen as a front-runner for secretary of state, as is Florida senator Marco Rubio, who called Trump a “crook” and “the most vulgar person to ever run for president ” in 2016.

The other frontrunners for a seat in the Trump 2.0 administration reflect the significant changes he is likely to implement.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading figure in the anti-vaccine movement for whom Trump has promised a “big role” in health care, told NBC News on Wednesday that “I’m not going to take anybody’s vaccines.”

The world’s richest man Elon Musk could also be in line for a job auditing government waste after the right-wing SpaceX, Tesla and X boss enthusiastically endorsed Trump.