The virtual president of the United States, Donald Trumpwas also carried out with the “hinge state” of Arizona and the 11 delegates who were in dispute over said territory, according to projections this Saturday by CNN and the Associated Press agency. Arizona’s victory adds to that of the rest of the “swing states” in these elections (Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina and Nevada) where Trump also won, which ultimately added 312 electoral votes against 226 for the Democratic candidate, Vice-President Kamala Harris.
Trump, who officially declared himself the winner of the US presidential election on Wednesday, thus cancels the result obtained in Arizona in 2020, when still President Joe Biden won by 10,457 votes in the closest electoral battle by state that year.
With Maricopa County as the epicenter, Trump then took it upon himself to spread baseless conspiracy theories about election rigging, planned for four years in the minds of many Republicans and which have steadily emerged over the past several years. campaign. In this state located in what is called the “sun belt”, which seemed to be the key to the future of elections Before the Republican tycoon won with such credit, Trump beat Hillary Clinton by four points in 2016.
Arizona has historically been a Republican-leaning state (Biden’s victory was the second for a Democratic candidate in the past 28 years), but rapid growth in the Latino population and divisions within Republicans there State have complicated the task of reconquest. In fact, since Trump’s last victory (2016), the Democratic Party had managed to elect the state’s governor, Katie Hobbs; to two senators and other senior state officials.
Harris and Trump, who had a slight lead in the polls in Arizona but within the margin of error, visited that state’s border with neighboring Mexico during the campaign to captivate voters.
Trump will have neither Haley nor Pompeo in his new government
Donald Trump announced this Saturday on social networks that He will not have in his new administration the former American ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, nor the former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.. “I will not invite former Ambassador Nikki Haley or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join the still-forming Trump administration,” the mogul said in a post on his own social network, Truth Social.
Regarding the two figures who participated in his previous executive, Trump added that “I really enjoyed and appreciated working with them before and I would like to thank them for their service to our country”, but on this occasion they did not will have no place in his government. Pompeo appeared to have a better chance of joining Trump for a second term, but the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ended up being publicly sidelined by the Republican leader, who, as was usual during his first presidency, began using social media again to reveal appointments.
Pompeo was even considered a potential Republican presidential candidate, but in April 2023 he announced that he would not fight for the party’s nomination, which Trump ultimately won by a large margin. For her part, Haley, also a former governor of South Carolina, ran in the Republican primaries and was the one who lasted the longest in the race with Trump until she eventually gave up the baton when she was surpassed.
Haley was not involved in Trump’s campaign, but she ended up supporting him publicly, despite his harsh criticism during the party’s primaries. US media have already reported on Trump’s efforts in recent days to meet with and confirm potential nominees to his administration well before his inauguration as president, scheduled for January 20.
