Trump draws closer to Biden in Arizona ballot count, but falls off pace needed to win state
Source: Arizona Republic
President Donald Trump inched closer to former Vice President Joe Biden as results from Thursday's ballot counting were released, but he fell off the pace needed to win Arizona's 11 electoral votes.
Trump won 55.6% of the ballots counted in Maricopa County on Thursday to Biden's 41.7%. It was a great showing, but Trump's challenge is he needs more than 57% of the outstanding votes to win.
Statewide, Trump chipped away 22,000 votes from Biden's lead, closing the gap to 46,667 votes as of 9:30 p.m. Thursday. But unless the next batches of votes show Trump with a higher percentage than what the president managed Thursday, he will fall short.
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Trump has already exhausted many of the remaining votes in the state's reddest counties, as Mohave, Cochise and Yavapai reported many of the ballots they had left to count. Although Trump saw huge margins there, it wasn't as much as some had hoped, said Republican pollster Paul Bentz of HighGround.
Trump's remaining path to victory here seems to lie in Pinal County, which still has 33,800 votes to count, along with winning the votes that were dropped off at the polls on Election Day in Maricopa County, which have yet to be counted.
The general feeling at AZ Democratic party is that the final batches will be more pro Democratic as the procrastinators beat the deadline, which was the pattern in previous elections, including 2018 Sinema's win.
