The Fort Worth Press - Trump completes swing state sweep by taking Arizona

USD -
AED 3.67299
AFN 68.564771
ALL 93.747911
AMD 390.284429
ANG 1.810594
AOA 913.499903
ARS 1003.995219
AUD 1.53845
AWG 1.8025
AZN 1.698585
BAM 1.867656
BBD 2.028371
BDT 120.054049
BGN 1.877901
BHD 0.376868
BIF 2967.603314
BMD 1
BND 1.350013
BOB 6.941467
BRL 5.804704
BSD 1.004588
BTN 84.879318
BWP 13.715061
BYN 3.287735
BYR 19600
BZD 2.025029
CAD 1.39964
CDF 2869.999699
CHF 0.88891
CLF 0.035351
CLP 975.4971
CNY 7.247697
CNH 7.259275
COP 4389.25
CRC 510.697626
CUC 1
CUP 26.5
CVE 105.296581
CZK 24.346199
DJF 178.896958
DKK 7.159897
DOP 60.533139
DZD 134.012024
EGP 49.6749
ERN 15
ETB 125.19309
EUR 0.95995
FJD 2.27535
FKP 0.789317
GBP 0.79925
GEL 2.725019
GGP 0.789317
GHS 15.9733
GIP 0.789317
GMD 71.000116
GNF 8659.405931
GTQ 7.755077
GYD 210.182537
HKD 7.78465
HNL 25.38723
HRK 7.133259
HTG 131.897725
HUF 394.532497
IDR 15918.95
ILS 3.715855
IMP 0.789317
INR 84.44205
IQD 1316.106114
IRR 42104.999753
ISK 139.700135
JEP 0.789317
JMD 159.547343
JOD 0.709104
JPY 154.367034
KES 129.505413
KGS 86.506089
KHR 4051.853797
KMF 469.649805
KPW 899.999621
KRW 1406.270273
KWD 0.30779
KYD 0.837201
KZT 498.204702
LAK 22005.452662
LBP 89966.529634
LKR 292.295131
LRD 181.336364
LSL 18.178163
LTL 2.95274
LVL 0.60489
LYD 4.907395
MAD 10.047317
MDL 18.293632
MGA 4704.107261
MKD 59.074586
MMK 3247.960992
MNT 3397.999946
MOP 8.054107
MRU 39.953781
MUR 46.849839
MVR 15.449752
MWK 1742.028515
MXN 20.433102
MYR 4.467503
MZN 63.901504
NAD 18.17825
NGN 1691.079844
NIO 36.770064
NOK 11.090806
NPR 135.806643
NZD 1.712404
OMR 0.384991
PAB 1.004588
PEN 3.816004
PGK 4.044176
PHP 58.941058
PKR 279.238615
PLN 4.164403
PYG 7884.8734
QAR 3.662677
RON 4.777698
RSD 112.345961
RUB 102.945802
RWF 1380.387139
SAR 3.754443
SBD 8.36952
SCR 13.619873
SDG 601.498139
SEK 11.085395
SGD 1.34764
SHP 0.789317
SLE 22.584982
SLL 20969.504736
SOS 574.129781
SRD 35.404962
STD 20697.981008
SVC 8.790275
SYP 2512.529858
SZL 18.186159
THB 34.511502
TJS 10.699307
TMT 3.51
TND 3.178235
TOP 2.342098
TRY 34.558099
TTD 6.819267
TWD 32.584499
TZS 2657.358981
UAH 41.476647
UGX 3711.856071
UYU 42.810419
UZS 12854.999883
VES 46.264848
VND 25430
VUV 118.722009
WST 2.791591
XAF 626.409275
XAG 0.032002
XAU 0.00037
XCD 2.70255
XDR 0.766351
XOF 626.39432
XPF 113.885189
YER 249.905316
ZAR 18.040901
ZMK 9001.203383
ZMW 27.702577
ZWL 321.999592
  • RBGPF

    -0.5000

    59.69

    -0.84%

  • CMSC

    0.0600

    24.7

    +0.24%

  • GSK

    0.1850

    33.885

    +0.55%

  • BTI

    0.1900

    37.17

    +0.51%

  • RELX

    0.8000

    46.56

    +1.72%

  • BP

    -0.0300

    29.49

    -0.1%

  • SCS

    0.1260

    13.166

    +0.96%

  • RIO

    -0.3400

    62.23

    -0.55%

  • BCC

    2.9300

    143.29

    +2.04%

  • AZN

    1.9400

    66.2

    +2.93%

  • NGG

    0.9896

    63.07

    +1.57%

  • RYCEF

    0.1800

    6.79

    +2.65%

  • BCE

    0.0400

    26.72

    +0.15%

  • VOD

    0.1173

    8.715

    +1.35%

  • JRI

    0.0500

    13.28

    +0.38%

  • CMSD

    -0.0040

    24.441

    -0.02%

Trump completes swing state sweep by taking Arizona
Trump completes swing state sweep by taking Arizona / Photo: © AFP

Trump completes swing state sweep by taking Arizona

Donald Trump won the state of Arizona in this week's US presidential election, US TV networks projected on Saturday, completing the Republican's sweep of all seven swing states.

Text size:

After four days of counting in the southwest state with a large Hispanic population, CNN and NBC projected Trump had obtained its 11 electoral votes as he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.

Outgoing President Joe Biden scored a narrow but crucial victory in Arizona in 2020 that condemned Trump to defeat after his first term in office.

The scale and strength of Trump's comeback, which also saw the real estate tycoon win the popular vote by a margin of around four million votes, has sent shockwaves through the defeated Democratic Party.

The Republicans have already regained control of the Senate and look well set to retain a majority in the House of Representatives thanks to support from white working class voters and a large share of Hispanics.

CNN has called Republican victories for 213 seats in the House, with 218 needed for a majority in the lower chamber.

The networks' figures show Democrats on 205 seats, although senior party figures are still hoping they can pull off a slim victory that would significantly curtail Trump's powers.

NBC sees the Republicans with 212 seats so far, and 204 for the Democrats.

The other six swing states won by Trump in the presidential race are Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada and Georgia.

The latest good news for Trump came as the White House said Biden would meet with the president-elect at the White House on Wednesday.

Trump -- who never conceded his 2020 loss -- sealed a remarkable comeback to the presidency in the November 5 vote, cementing what is set to be more than a decade of US politics dominated by his hardline right-wing stance.

This type of meeting between the outgoing and incoming presidents was considered customary, but Trump did not invite Biden for one after making unsubstantiated election fraud claims that culminated in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

Trump also broke with precedent by skipping Biden's inauguration, but the White House has said the Democratic president will attend the upcoming ceremony.

Biden's meeting with Trump will take place in the Oval Office, the White House said Saturday, with the clock ticking down to the ex-president's return to power.

Trump, the 78-year-old ex-reality TV star, won wider margins than before, despite a criminal conviction, two impeachments while in office and warnings from his former chief of staff that he is a fascist.

Exit polls showed that voters' top concerns remained the economy and inflation that spiked under Biden in the wake of the Covid pandemic.

The 81-year-old president, who dropped out of the White House race in July over concerns about his age, health and mental acuity, called Trump on Wednesday to congratulate him on the election win.

- Trump 2.0 -

Democrats have been pointing fingers over who is to blame for Harris' decisive loss after she replaced Biden at the top of the ticket roughly 100 days before the election.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took aim at Biden, telling The New York Times that "had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race."

As the Democrats weigh what went wrong, Trump has begun to assemble his second administration by naming campaign manager Susie Wiles to serve as his White House chief of staff.

She is the first woman to be named to the high-profile role and the Republican's first appointment to his incoming administration.

- Jockeying for jobs -

Trump on Saturday ruled out re-appointing two senior figures from his first administration, secretary of state Mike Pompeo and UN ambassador Nikki Haley.

Abrasive former ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell is seen as a frontrunner for the secretary of state position, as is Florida Senator Marco Rubio who called Trump a "con artist" and the "most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency" in 2016.

The other frontrunners for a place in the Trump 2.0 administration reflect the significant changes it is likely to implement.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading figure in the anti-vaccine movement for whom Trump has pledged a "big role" in health care, told NBC News on Wednesday that "I'm not going to take away anybody's vaccines."

The world's richest man, Elon Musk, could also be in line for a job auditing government waste after the right-wing SpaceX, Tesla and X boss enthusiastically backed Trump.

T.M.Dan--TFWP