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Expand his Electoral College to 290.

For just the second time in more than seven decades, a Democrat will carry Arizona in a presidential election, a monumental shift for a state that was once a Republican stronghold.

CNN projected on Thursday that President-elect Joe Biden will carry Arizona, defeating President Donald Trump and providing Democrats in Arizona and the universe of allied grassroots organizations in the state with a crowning achievement a decade in the making.

Biden's win in the state that propelled Republican leaders like Barry Goldwater and John McCain to national prominence could foretell problems for the party going forward. Three key shifts in the state helped Democrats this year: a growing Latino population that leans Democratic, a surge in voters moving to Arizona from more liberal states like California and Illinois, and the way suburban voters have starkly broken with a Republican Party led by someone like Trump.

Arizona, by going blue, is moving closer to its neighbor to the northwest -- Nevada, where Democrats have taken control of almost all aspects of government -- and away from the state's traditional rightward bent.

The Democratic victory -- declared days after CNN projected Biden's win in the presidential race -- was anchored by Maricopa County, home to Phoenix and nearly 60% of all people in the state. Maricopa is the fastest-growing county in the country, transforming over the last two decades into a sprawling mass of metropolitan hubs, sun-scorched planned communities and bustling strip malls.

"Maricopa County won the state of Arizona for Mark Kelly and Joe Biden," said Steven Slugocki, chair of Maricopa County's Democrats. "Here in Maricopa, we committed our resources to voters of color, women and traditionally underrepresented groups throughout the state. Our strategy proved to be effective."

Biden is just the second Democrat to win Arizona since 1948, when Harry Truman won. Bill Clinton narrowly won the state in 1996, but Arizona moved further right in the next two decades, electing hard-line immigration proponents like Gov. Jan Brewer and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and ing laws like SB 1070, a controversial state law that required officers to make immigration checks while enforcing other laws if "reasonable suspicion" of illegal immigration exists.

The Democratic victory builds on the work by grassroots organizations on the ground in Arizona, many of which focused on the state's growing Latino population by uniting around the opposition to Arpaio and the immigration crackdown. Those groups provided the state's Democratic apparatus -- which had few wins to brag about back in 2010 -- with the building blocks needed to grow into an influential force able to win a Senate seat in 2018, and, just two years later, the other Senate seat and the presidential race.

"This year was a victory for the decade-plus of work in this state," said Laura Dent, the executive director of Chispa Arizona, one of a number of organizations that have formed a coalition called Mi AZ, an alliance of six groups that have worked to engage voters, particularly Latinos, for years. "It has been a decade-plus of building and the sustained work of organizing between electoral cycles have been critical."

Dent said the organizing around SB 1070 was a "catalyst" for these groups to unify around something and "build that collective power" on display this year. Just since 2018, Chispa Arizona alone has ed 44,000 voters, and it made 1.3 million calls to voters this year in Arizona.

This shift in Arizona will also be felt back in Washington, DC, as the party's top operatives attempt to figure out how they lost a state like Arizona, which just six years ago was seen as a Republican lock. The key question: Will the rising Democratic organization in the state put Arizona further out of reach in the years to come?

"I thought by 2024, Arizona would be for real a swing state," said Yasser Sanchez, an immigration lawyer who volunteered for Republican Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and worked for McCain's 2016 reelection to the Senate before rejecting a Trump-led Republican Party and helping organize Latino voters for Biden. "Every time I heard it would be before, I thought that was wishful thinking."

Looming over Biden's victory is the legacy of McCain, an Arizona stalwart whose "maverick" conservatism carried a coalition of Democrats, independents and Republicans for years in the state. Trump and McCain had a tense relationship, and when the senator cast a vote against the President's Obamacare repeal bill, the tension exploded, leading Trump to double down on his mocking attacks of the Republican senator, even after he died in 2018. This, along with comments Trump reportedly made about military and veterans, spurred McCain's widow, Cindy McCain, to back Biden, an endorsement that was front page news in the state.

Republicans like Chad Heywood, the former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party, argued that the Democratic victory did not portend a significant shift in the state.

"This was a purple state that looked red during the Obama years," said Heywood, adding that if the President ends up losing the state by less than 3 percentage points, it wasn't "a massive sea change in Arizona."

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Truum trump

How far

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Where is helinues?
Where is bamite?

Cc lzaa

There's no coming back from here for Donald Trump

Biden is likely to get 306 electoral college votes.

We are watching

Ibadansun1:
There's no coming back from here for Donald Trump

Biden is likely to get 306 electoral college votes.

Sure Nevada and Georgia will take him there.

Dansuqi, you were saying?

KenOne:


Sure Nevada and Georgia will take him there.

No be only Nevada, na Nivia
Nevada that he has won since

CNN media president
As Biden don win,make betting companies payout Biden's stakers nah make I see...

Another heartbreak for Trump the tyrant ers.

No going back.

Righteousness89 has been avoiding ANYTHING US election results threads since the prophecy is now clearly blurry

KenOne:


Sure Nevada and Georgia will take him there.

Biden already won Nevada.

What will u expect when even dead people voted in his favour, most Americans are testifying of there massive fraud only the main stream media keeps hiding the truth

CNN and this their news seff. The end of america era has come and china and Russia will takeover once Biden wins. But I believe Trump will come out victoriously from what is going on.

colorsofrainbow:
CNN

Fox projected the same state for Biden about a week ago.

CNN and other news outlet only projected it for Biden when the winning margin was bigger than the remaining votes yet to be counted.

Hmmm....

Ibadansun1:
There's no coming back from here for Donald Trump

Biden is likely to get 306 electoral college votes.

Trump is still cummin" oooo..is just that his "deflection" may not be strong

Donald Trump rit now

IPOB miscreants will feel sad again

FFK RIGHT NOW...

DONALD Trump is a goner.

Nah eh! No qualms

Noted.

thatsleepboy1:
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For Joe Bidden

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Chikarata2020:
What will u expect when even dead people voted in his favour, most Americans are testifying of there massive fraud only the main stream media keeps hiding the truth

The only dead person that was detected so far tried to vote for Trump.

A man was caught in Pennsylvania trying to use his dead mum ID to vote for Trump.

Ibadansun1:
There's no coming back from here for Donald Trump

Biden is likely to get 306 electoral college votes.

Who Announced Joe Bidden Winner of US Presidential Election and decleared him President-Elect?

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Isoright

That's some gap right there.

I'd always tell people, Trump knows he has lost the election, and will eventually concede.

What people don't know is the reason behind his reluctance to concede. They seem to have forgotten who Trump is - a hardcore businessman who never misses an opportunity to cash out.

An election litigation fund has been created and donations have been pouring in from all corners, private individuals and corporate bodies I believe. The electoral laws permits that such funds can be channelled to personal expenses as well.

You see, election is big business in America and involves expenses running into billions of dollars, sometimes getting candidates into massive debts. Trump sees this as an opportunity to cushion his financial loses and nothing else. If for instance he prosecuted his reelection bid with 100 dollars, this presents him an opportunity to cut his loses by perhaps a quarter or less. Regardless, it means a little more cash at his disposal. That is just it and nothing more.

Ok..see ur life Trump, concede defeat, u no gree, sheybi na shame u wan shame yourself now

Uppercut for Donald Trump again. Our Nigerians blothers from the yeast should make sure their votes is counted

Trump and his remaining ers should just give up already. Just call Biden and congratulate him

With these records Biden is breaking,it is obvious he's the chosen one from above