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Trump wins Arizona, the last state up for grabs in the 2024 presidential election
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Trump wins Arizona, the last state up for grabs in the 2024 presidential election

PHOENIX (AP/AZFamily) — Donald Trump will carry Arizona for the first time since 2016, the Associated Press projects, winning the state’s 11 electoral votes.

Polls showed the race between the former president and Kamala Harris virtually tied in Arizona in the days leading up to the election. with at least one survey indicating that Trump was moving forward.

Both the candidates and their running mates made several visits to Arizona ahead of the election, which remains a major electoral battleground in 2024. In his most recent visit, Trump made an appearance with conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson in Glendale last Thursday.

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 has accepted an endorsement from the agents’ union, the National Border Patrol Council, which is a longtime supporter of Trump, having backed him during the previous two campaigns.

Trump made illegal immigration a centerpiece of his campaign and blamed Harris for a record increase in unauthorized crossings at the US-Mexico border. He frequently denounces people who enter the US illegally as invaders and criminals and has vowed to mount the largest deportation operation in American history if re-elected president.

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

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

Although Arizona is a battleground now, it wasn’t considered particularly competitive eight years ago, when it voted for Trump by a 4-percentage-point margin in his race against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

See here the results of the last elections.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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