President-elect Trump wins Arizona to sweep the seven battleground states

[Vinson]

The house next?

President-elect Trump has officially won Arizona, avenging his 2020 election loss in the crucial swing state.

The race in Arizona was called by the Associated Press on Saturday evening. With Arizona, Trump has secured 11 more electoral votes, and has won 312 electoral votes in total. His opponent, Vice President Harris, only garnered 226 electoral votes.

Trump's Arizona pick-up ends the battle for swing states in the 2024 presidential election. In addition to Arizona, he picked up electoral votes in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

President Biden won the state of Arizona by less than one-half of 1% in the 2020 election and the results in the key area of Maricopa County were also slim, with Biden beating Trump by 2%.

Before Biden won Arizona in 2020, Republicans had carried the state every year since 1996.

Immigration was arguably the most highly important issue in Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico.

"We have to have swifter incarceration at the border," Mary from Phoenix told Fox News Digital last month. "And if there's a suspicion that they're going to commit a crime, lock them up."

Others in Arizona agreed with Harris' message in her numerous trips to the state that Trump represents a threat to "Democracy."

"Kamala, Kamala, Kamala!" a Tempe man named Bob told Fox News Digital. "The rich have been riding a wave of tax cuts and not responsibility, and the Supreme Court's been taking away the rights of the government agencies that regulate things. So we need to get that back in line and Kamala is going to do that instead of putting more Federalist judges up there."

Arizona is also home to a higher proportion of Hispanic voters than the rest of the country, and while they favored Biden by 19 points in the last election, they had shown signs of shifting toward Trump leading up to the election.

The Grand Canyon State is also voting for a new senator after independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided not to run for re-election this year. The Republican candidate is Kari Lake, a former TV news host who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2022. The Democrats have fielded Rep. Ruben Gallego, a former Marine who represents Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District.

Trump wins Arizona to sweep swing states and secure 312 total electoral votes

The Associated Press has declared that Trump has won the Arizona presidential race, which had 11 electoral votes at stake in a state where illegal immigration was a top issue.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Bucktee]

If any other candidate had run their campaign the way Trump did, the media would be fawning over how perfect it was.

Trump is almost 80 years old yet he's on the pulse of culture. He assembled an incredible team of people that harnessed the power of the internet like never before.

Bill Clinton's appearances on Late Night in the 1990s to bolster his candidacy was considered revolutionary... we still remember him playing the saxophone on Arsenio Hall. It was a wild time.

Trump's 2024 campaign was equally revolutionary. His command of podcasts, memes, and social media messaging has ushered in a whole new era of politics. He virtually ignored traditional media and left them alone to do what they do best... create clickbait and fake news... while he connected with voters directly. He made himself accessible not just in rallies but by doing long form interviews on the biggest podcasts in the world.

Compare that to Harris' appearance on an obscure sex podcast, irrelevant media [Howard Stern] and a list of obsolete/inconsequential late night talk shows, and it becomes clear that while Trump was reaching new heights, Harris remained completely out of touch with the average voter of 2024.

Trump not only won because his policies are superior to his opponent's but because he spoke with voters instead of down to them. Harris' standoffish pompous style is irritating in a world that's become small and interconnected. If you can't sit down and have a basic conversation with popular impartial podcasters that speak in ordinary language, you seem inauthentic. Voters were dying to see Harris participate in a legitimate sit down to find out who she really is and to put to rest the notion that she's an intellectual lightweight.

Instead, she chose the road of traditional media that was sympathetic to her, serving up softballs and support, sometimes with pre-selected questions and scripted answers.

This might have worked successfully before social media existed. The political and media establishment could have covered for her incompetence the same way they gave refuge for Biden's dementia.

But one gets quickly exposed in the social media world we live in.

Trump did better among young voters and minority voters than just about any Republican in history, because he could connect with them in ways that went beyond tired "get out the youth vote" initiatives that is standard Democrat fodder.

Trump understands that different times require different approaches. It's unremarkable because it's common sense, but it's remarkable because this fact was completely lost on the 'smart' and 'experienced' Harris team and the entire traditional media machine backing her.

 

[Lenny59]

He just can't stop winning!