New Delhi: Donald Trump, the president-elect after winning the 2024 presidential election, will officially become the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025 with the inauguration.
Trump has scored a big win over Democrat Kamala Harris and completed a clean sweep of the seven swing states, also known as the battleground states, as the media announced him the winner in Arizona, the last state for the results to be known.
Trump has secured 11 votes from Arizona’s Electoral College and now leads with 312 seats to Vice President Kamala Harris’s 226. Arizona is a border state where Latinos make up 30.1 per cent of the population.
The Associated Press news agency, based on its analysis of the counting trend, announced on Saturday night, November 9, the result in Arizona.
Among the seven swing states, Arizona was the last and the final state for the results to be known, although Trump had been declared the winner by Wednesday morning, November 6, when his tally crossed 270 electoral votes in the 538-member Electoral College based on the results from states at that point.
States other than the swing states are almost evenly divided firmly in the camp of either party while the swing states, also known as the battleground states, have an excessive influence in determining the winner and Harris and Trump spent most of their energies campaigning there.
The RealClear Polling aggregation of polls showed Trump ahead by only 2.8 per cent of the votes, but the AP tally showed him ahead by 6.1 per cent.
Trump carried the elections in all the seven states by larger margins than predicted, including Wisconsin and Michigan, where the aggregation showed Harris winning.
Compared to 2016, when Trump did not get the majority of the popular votes, this time he is ahead in popular votes also.
Kamala Harris was hoping that Trump’s promise of firm action against illegal migrants, a majority of whom come from Latin American countries, and some of his supporters’ racist remarks against the community, would rally them to vote for her. But that did not happen.
In fact, nationally, Trump has prevented Latino voters to support the Democratic Party, increasing the proportion of votes from them to 46 per cent compared to 35 per cent in the last election, still leaving the Democrats with a small lead, according to AP polling.
(With IANS inputs)
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