The presidential race in Arizona was called Saturday evening, November 9, for Donald Trump. With 87% of precincts reporting, Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris 52.6% to 45.4% with a margin of 184,945 votes. Though the precise numbers are bound to change as the remaining 13% or so of votes are reported, AP and other election trackers have called the race in favor of the former president.
Swing State Sweep
Like most of the rest of America, Liberty Nation News has focused on seven battleground states in this election cycle: Arizona (11), Michigan (15), North Carolina (16), Wisconsin (10), Nevada (6), Pennsylvania (19), and Georgia (16), all together accounting for 93 Electoral College votes. Trump won them all. For the last few months and through Election Day, the national conversation was what paths of swing state wins to the White House exist for each candidate. The former president forged his own path right through them all.
Riding the Trump Coattails to Victory?
There are millions of votes across the nation that remain to be counted – especially in California and Arizona. As such, the popular vote totals will change. Currently, Trump holds an almost four million vote lead over Harris. Will he keep it? We may not know that until as late as December. But the elector-count is done, and the final numbers are 312-226 in Trump’s favor.
The down-ballot races followed a similar course, it seems. Republicans won 27 gubernatorial races compared to 23 for Democrats. Republicans are up 213-202 in the House. Just 20 seats are left to be called, of which the GOP just needs five more. Of those 20, Republicans are leading in nine.
In the Senate, republicans picked up several seats, securing a majority of 53 to 46 with just one seat left to call – the one currently occupied by Democrat-turned-independent Kyrsten Sinema, who didn’t run for re-election this year. At present, with 87% of the votes counted, Democrat Ruben Gallego is leading Republican Kari Lake 49.7% to 48.2% – and there’s a Green Party candidate pulling votes that would presumably otherwise go to Gallego. At 2.1% – well more than the 1.5% gap between the two main-party candidates – Eduardo Quintana will certainly be called a spoiler by the left if Lake manages to pull ahead and beat Gallego. That’s unlikely – and, indeed, some news outlets have already called the race for Gallego. However, AP tellingly has not called it, and it remains to be seen if Lake will ride the president-elect’s coattails all the way to Washington.
