- Between 78% and 94% of Arizona’s votes are in — more than 2.5 million votes — and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is leading.
- Polls closed across the state at 11 p.m. ET.
- Arizona is normally a Republican mainstay in presidential elections. The state has voted for a Republican president in every election but one since 1972.
- The state’s delegation in Congress is split: six Democrats and five Republicans.
- Arizona holds 11 electoral votes and is expected to be a competitive race.
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Between 78% and 94% of Arizona’s votes are in — more than 2.5 million votes — and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is leading President Donald Trump.
Polls closed across the state at 11 p.m. ET.
Election officials in Maricopa County, home to over 60% of Arizonans, say they will report thousands of mail-in ballots at around on Wednesday night. About 400,000 of the approximately 600,000 ballots yet to be counted in Arizona were cast in Maricopa County, which has trended towards Democrats in recent years.
There are major down-ballot races in the Senate and House, including the 1st District, the 2nd District in the southeast, and the 6th District in Phoenix’s northern suburbs.
The state’s congressional delegation is split: six Democrats and five Republicans in Congress. Both houses of the state legislature and the position of governor, however, are held by Republicans. Arizona has 11 electoral votes and is believed by analysts to be competitive.
Arizona, and particularly Maricopa County, has seen significant demographic shifts in recent years that have helped move the state to the left. These include new residents from the coasts, people with higher educational attainment, and Latinos, who are disproportionately younger and left-leaning.
Polling has also shown that Arizona’s suburban women shifted leftwards this cycle. This group has been crucial to Democratic victories across the country, both this year and in 2018.
Arizona political strategists say Trump’s regular attacks on former Arizona Sen. John McCain, a longserving political moderate and Vietnam veteran, has hurt the president’s popularity among establishment Republicans and independents in the state.
Arizona, which Trump won by just over three points in 2016, has voted Republican for every election but one since 1972.
Trump has little chance of being reelected if he fails to hold Arizona — which he won in 2016 by just over 3 percentage points — and its 11 electoral votes. If Biden’s able to win Arizona, he’ll inch closer to or reach the 270 electoral college votes he needs to win the White House.
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