Donald Trump won the battleground state of Arizona, completing a sweep of all seven swing states in this year’s election.
Arizona, which has 11 Electoral College votes, has trended blue in recent years, with many statewide jobs held by Democrats, but the former president flipped it back to Republicans.
He campaigned intensely on border security, immigration and crime committed by illegal immigrants on the trail, all issues that resonated in a swing state that saw a record influx of migrants last year. Trump promised mass deportations, promoted the hiring of an additional 10,000 border agents to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border and pledged to use part of the military budget for border funding.
Arizona is home to the fourth-largest population of Hispanic voters, a demographic group that saw the former president make gains in 2024, polls show.
Trump’s victory in Arizona also marks a transformation of the state’s Republican Party, from home to Republican establishment figures such as the late Sen. John McCain to the birthplace of Trump’s MAGA movement. In 2020, President Joe Biden became the first Democrat to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1996. Trump has now reversed it.
Arizona is the sixth state that Trump has abandoned following Biden’s Electoral College victory in 2020. The other states won by Biden where Trump prevailed this year are Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump also won North Carolina, a state he narrowly held in 2020 but which Vice President Kamala Harris had actively contested in this election.
