President-elect Donald Trump has won Arizona, NBC News projects, putting its 11 electoral votes in his column after he narrowly lost the state to President Joe Biden in 2020.
A fast-growing Latino population and a revolt against Trump among some old-line Republicans put the once-red state into battleground territory.
And Biden’s 2020 win in Arizona was just the second time in 28 years that Arizona’s electoral votes went to the Democratic presidential nominee.
Arizona was the second-closest state in the country in the 2020 presidential race, with Biden beating Trump by just 0.3 percentage points (10,457 votes).
And the state was a good fit for the two issues at the center of Trump’s campaign: the economy and immigration.
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