Donald Trump wins Arizona as the US House of Representatives approaches Republican control – American Politics Live | American policy

Republican representative of the United States Eli Crane He won re-election in a Republican-leaning congressional district covering vast swaths of rural Arizona, the Associated Press reported.

Crane faced the Democrat Jonathan Nezformer president of the Navajo Nation, is in the 2nd District race. Nez was vying to become the first Native American to represent Arizona in Congress.

In a statement issued late Saturday, Crane praised Neese for entering the race and thanked voters. Crane wrote:

I will continue to use every tool in my arsenal to fight corruption and the selfish interests of D.C. elites to put rural Arizonans first.

I am very focused on working with President Trump to lower inflation, secure the border, and return to peace through strength.

The district covers much of northeastern Arizona and slopes south to Tucson’s northern suburbs.

Nez said in a statement late Saturday that he called Crane to congratulate him on the hard-fought win. “Although we did not get the result we hoped for, the work we started together is far from over,” Nez wrote.

Crane, a former Marine who served in the Army for 13 years, is a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus and a staunch ally of the president-elect. Donald TrumpWho won Arizona. Crane was among eight Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted nationally to oust the president Kevin McCarthy As Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2023.

Donald Trump The Associated Press (AP) on Saturday declared him the winner of Arizona’s presidential election, completing a clean sweep of all seven contested states and clinching a decisive Electoral College victory over the Democratic vice president. Kamala Harris.

Trump, who had the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House by early Wednesday, received what is expected to be a final total of 312 votes to Harris’ 226.

The win moved the state back into the Republican column after that Joe BidenTrump’s 2020 victory marked Trump’s second win in Arizona since 2016. Trump’s campaign focused on border security and the economy, linking Harris to inflation and recording illegal border crossings during the Biden administration.

Trump also won the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Nevada. In 2020, Biden defeated Trump by winning six of the seven swing states — he narrowly lost North Carolina — and won 306 Electoral College votes to Trump’s 232.

Trump also won 306 votes in his 2016 victory Hillary Clinton.

The Associated Press said Trump received 74.6 million votes nationwide, or 50.5%, compared to 70.9 million votes for Harris, or 48%.

Meanwhile, Republican U.S. Rep Eli Crane He won re-election to a seat in the United States House of Representatives representing Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District. The new representative defeated the former Navajo chief, Jonathan Nezwho was vying to become the state’s first Native American representative.

In a statement issued late Saturday, Crane praised Neese for entering the race and thanked voters.

More on that in a bit, but first, here are the latest developments in US policy:

• Protests against Trump broke out in the United States on Saturday, with people on both coasts taking to the streets to express frustration over his re-election. Thousands of people demonstrated in major cities including New York City and Seattle against the former president and now president-elect amid his threats against reproductive rights and his pledges to carry out mass deportations at the beginning of his next presidency.

• The White House announced on Saturday that Biden and Trump will meet on Wednesday in the Oval Office. “At the invitation of President Biden, President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

• On Saturday, Republicans appeared on the verge of controlling the US House of RepresentativesIt is a crucial element for Trump to advance his agenda when the president-elect returns to the White House in January. The Associated Press reported that three races for the US House of Representatives in Arizona were too early to announce on Saturday, most notably the First and Sixth Congressional Districts.

• President-elect Howard Lutnick, a long-time friend and one of the few prominent figures in corporate America who publicly endorsed his campaign, has been tasked with recruiting officials. Who will implement, rather than dilute, his agenda. Cantor Fitzgerald, CEO and co-chair of Trump’s transition team, has made no secret of his plan to stack the new White House with loyalists — and keep out anyone who threatens to derail his pledges.

• A senior Trump adviser said that the next US administration’s priority for Ukraine will be to achieve peace rather than helping it regain territory seized by Russia. In nearly three years of war. in interview Brian Lanza, who has been a political adviser to Trump since his 2016 presidential campaign, said on a BBC program on Saturday: “When Zelensky says we will only stop this fighting, and there will only be peace, and once the peninsula returns… Crimea, we have news for President Zelensky: Crimea is over.

• A Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) employee has been fired from her job and is being investigated because she told a disaster relief team that she was directing in Florida after Hurricane Milton to avoid homes displaying pro-Trump campaign signs.The behavior, which the agency’s head described on Saturday as “reprehensible.”