On election night, Fox News and the Associated Press projected Joe Biden winning Arizona. But other networks didn’t make the same call, and their cautiousness was merited as the margin in the state narrowed … and narrowed.
Narrowed, but didn’t close—and now, CNN and NBC are calling Biden as the winner in Arizona more than a week later. Biden becomes the first Democrat to win Arizona since 1996, and only the second since 1948. He does so thanks to strong on-the-ground organizing among Latinos in the state, and in the Navajo Nation.
The Arizona win puts Biden, already the president-elect, at 290 Electoral College votes, while Donald Trump has 217, with Georgia and North Carolina still to be called. Biden leads in Georgia and Trump in North Carolina. If those leads hold, as they are expected to do, the final result will be 306 to 232.
This gives Trump one more piece of bad news to stew and fume over, and will likely remind him of his rage at Fox News for its election night call. And it highlights that Biden has won big. This wasn’t a squeaker, it was a big win both in the popular vote and the Electoral College.