US Elections: Media Calls Arizona for Joe Biden for Donald Trump

Various media outlets have just named Joe Biden the winner in Arizona, further extending his lead in the US presidential election over Donald Trump.

NBC and CNN are among the outlets that named Biden the projected state winner, earning him 11 more ballots.

Arizona has long been considered a Republican stronghold, but most major media outlets agree that it has turned blue.

Arizona gives Biden a 290-217 lead over Trump in the Electoral College who ultimately decides the presidency; It takes 270 to win the White House.

It comes days after Fox News called the state for Biden, sparking the fury of Trump and his campaign.

Fox called Arizona for Biden on election night when only 73 percent of the state’s votes had been counted.

This enraged the president so much that Trump’s political adviser Jason Miller called Fox News in an attempt to get the network to retract the call, according to the New York Times.

The president still seems bitter about the call, and recently tweeted that Fox News’ ratings had “plummeted” because they “forgot what made them successful.”

Despite Biden being declared the election winner and delivering a victory speech, Trump has still refused to admit he lost.

Trump has been making, so far unsubstantiated, claims of widespread voter fraud and remains convinced he could still win the election.

More recently, the president claimed in a series of tweets that 2.7 million votes had been “knocked out” for him and hundreds of thousands had been transferred from him to Biden in Pennsylvania and other states.

Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have stood firm with Trump in backing his refusal to back down and backing his legal challenges.

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intervened Thursday to demand that Republicans stop what she called an “absurd circus” and dedicate herself to fighting the pandemic.

“Now that people have voiced their views, Joe Biden has won (and) Kamala Harris will be America’s first female vice president,” Pelosi said.

Political experts believe that Republicans may be invoking that strategy as a way to rile Trump’s base ahead of two US Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will determine which party controls the chamber.

In the past two weeks, Twitter has rated some 300,000 US election-related tweets as “potentially misleading,” representing 0.2 percent of election-related posts.

The social network said the tags were issued between October 27 and November 11, a week before and after the November 3 US presidential election.

Almost half of Trump’s tweets were flagged as “disputed” by the platform in the days after the election.