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10:20 a. M.
Wednesday 04 November 2020
Agencies:
The Associated Press reported that Democratic candidate Joe Biden won in Arizona, garnering 11 votes from the southern state electoral college, which has been a Republican stronghold for decades, in President Donald Trump’s first setback.
Arizona has not voted for any Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton won it in 1996, and was the first Democratic candidate to win the state since Harry Truman.
In this year’s race, it was among the decisive states, although it was a republic for a long time.
Opinion polls showed that, before Decisive Day, Biden was far ahead of his rival, Republican President Donald Trump, in Arizona and other major states such as Florida, North Carolina and Georgia.
Given their importance in this year’s presidential battle, the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, and the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Senator Kamala Harris, held several election rallies in them, days before the day of the election, and the employees Both campaigns knocked on the doors to urge voters to vote for their candidates.
And the attitudes of Arizona voters are changing with the growing number of people from Latin American countries and an influx of citizens from a more liberal California, according to the Associated Press.
Conservative voters appreciate Trump’s efforts to impose immigration restrictions and build a wall on the border with Mexico, but his feud with the late state senator, John McCain, affected his fortune and McCain’s widow, Cindy, declared her support. to Biden.
Florida, which has 29 electoral votes and is considered one of the undecided states, is witnessing intense competition among candidates and expectations indicate Trump’s progress in it.
More than 100 million voters cast their votes early in the last few weeks, before the elections, to avoid standing in line with the outbreak of the new Corona virus.
