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Donald Trump e Melania Trump
Missouri, Montana, Nevada and Arizona: all with curious votes. The 7 States in which there were doubts left no doubts.
There were doubts in 7 States, but there were no doubts: the Republican Party won in all.
Donald Trump won in arizona, triumphing in all states considered decisive in the race for the White House, according to projections released on Saturday.
Arizona joins the rest swing states of these elections — Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina and Nevada — where Trump also won in Tuesday’s elections, with 312 electoral votes against 226 for Democratic candidate and vice president, Kamala Harris.
Trump reverse thus the result obtained in Arizona in 2020, when the country’s President, Joe Biden, won by 10,457 votes in the closest electoral battle between the States that year.
Arizona is historically Republican-leaning — Biden’s victory was the second by a Democratic candidate in the last 28 years — but the rapid growth of the Latino population and divisions within Republicans in that state have complicated the win back.
Trump and abortion
Two of these states, Nevada and precisely Arizona, i prefer donald trumpbut also approved measures to expand abortion rights. This was last year.
The following year, they join Colorado, New York, Maryland, Missouri and Montana as the states that elected the candidate who is against abortionhighlights the . Everyone voted for Trump, by majority.
Kelly Baden of the Guttmacher Institute explains that voters continue to prioritize access to abortion, but many do not associate this issue to broader political positions.
In five of these states (Colorado, Maryland, Montana, Nevada and New York) abortion already exists, it is already legal.
Now, with Republican dominance, experts fear restrictions to abortion on a national level and that the incoming White House administration may restrict abortion medications and procedures – and may affect states that already have protections in place.
Voters in these states They may even stop performing abortions if they “faced a possible criminalization”, Notify specialist Baden.
