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On Monday, Nov. 30, Arizona officials certified the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election, confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s win over Republican incumbent Donald Trump. It was a close race in the Grand Canyon State, with Biden earning 49.36% of the vote, over Trump’s 49.06%, winning by a little more than 10,000 votes. This is the first time Arizona has voted blue in a presidential election since 1996.

“Of those 3.42 million ballots cast, over 88% of them were cast early, which provides more proof that Arizona’s ballot-by-mail system works,” said Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. “Despite unprecedented challenges, Arizonans showed up for our democracy.”

Hobbs confirmed the results during The State Canvass, alongside Governor Doug Ducey, Attorney General Brnovich, and Chief Justice Robert Brutinel.

“This election was conducted with transparency, accuracy and fairness, in accordance with Arizona’s laws and elections procedures, despite numerous unfounded claims to the contrary,” Hobbs said. 

This article appears in Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2020.

7 replies on “Secretary of State Confirms Biden’s Win in Arizona”

  1. The results are certified which then allows them to be challenged in court. He is not the confirmed winner. There is no confirmation process that the State of AZ holds over the country. Biden has more total votes, so now they need to see how many they are going to have to disallow. (For both candidates)

  3. Trumpsters the reason you lost in arizona in 2020 along with pennsylvania and wisconsin is thanks to your republican legislatures never ending attempt to keep the libertarian party off the ballot so republicans wouldn’t have an alternative to them. All republicans did was keep green party off ballot as an alternative joe biden as libertarian party was on ballot in all 50 states taking votes from trump. Most of you trumpkins are to ignorant to understand this ;but this is why dump loss. For the stupid I will give you example. 2016 trump wins wisconsin by 22,000 votes with green party jill stein getting 43,000 votes. In 2020 dump loses wisconsin by 20,000 votes with green party not allowed on ballot same az. and pa.

  5. Well, Captain Arizona, I tend to avoid picking on you the way many of the others on this site do, but hopefully you’re not too stoopid to understand this little bit of election education:

    THIRD PARTIES ARE ABSOLUTELY IRRELEVANT IN U.S. ELECTIONS.

    Let’s look at your own math. “In 2016, Tchump won Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes.” That much is true. “The Green Party’s Jill Stein got 43,000 votes in Wisconsin.” That part is FALSE. Jill Stein got about 31,000 votes in the 2016 presidential election in the state of Wisconsin.

    The incredibly simple-minded conclusion that the Green tilted the election toward Tchump is not supported by any evidence whatsoever. This infantile perspective assumes that nearly every single voter who went for Stein would have automatically voted for Clinton had the Green not been on the ballot. (In order for Clinton to NET 22,000 votes from Stein’s voters, she would have had to win them by about a 27,000-4,000 margin.) Such a dynamic has never been shown to be true, not in any election.

    Let’s examine the actual facts of the most famous one (the one that Dumbocrats love to point at when they’re blaming Greens for their own failures): Florida 2000. Exit polls from that election roundly disprove the notion that Nader cost Gore the election. CNN exit polling showed that almost half of Nader voters would not have voted had he not been on the ballot, about 1/4 would have voted Bush, and 1/4 would have voted Gore. MSNBC exit polling showed it as roughly 1/3 staying home, 1/3 for Bush, and 1/3 for Gore.

    In other words, RALPH NADER HAD NO DISCERNIBLE EFFECT on the race there. NONE.

    In fact, reading between the polling lines, Nader’s presence in that race may have even hurt Bush a little, if anything. The same exit polling showed that about 10 percent of Nader’s voter’s in Florida 2000 voted for the Reform Party’s Ross Perot in 1996, and those voters were widely expected to go to the Rs and Bush in the 2000 election.

    All of this makes perfect sense if you actually think about who these people are instead of reflexively spouting kindergarten-level math. Like any other third-party voters, Greens tend to be 1) thoroughly disaffected and 2) NOT a monolithic block. Third-party voters have concluded that they don’t like the two main parties and don’t see themselves being represented by their candidates, for whatever reasons. Assigning their votes en masse to one candidate or another just doesn’t make any sense at all, and the data prove it.

  6. skinnyman Thanks for the correction on wisconsin. I had written trumps winning margin in pennsylvania to close to the wisconson numbers. As for the rest that is conjecture and using exit polling is inaccurate. Exit polls gave gore floriduh when it was to close to call causing the media to call floriduh for gore and then had to rescind it. Exit polls called election for john kerry in 2004 giving him ohio. 2016 and 2020 even media complained exit polling gave them inaccurate information. Also more people voted this time and finally democrat party disagrees with you as they as they kept green party off ballot off ballot in az, pa, wi. and many other states thru sabotage by democrat party infiltrating democrat agent provocateurs.

  7. The exit polls were correct in Florida 2000, Captain. Gore would indeed have won Florida, *IF* all the votes had been counted–but they weren’t. When it was clear that Gore was inexorably narrowing the gap and was poised to surpass Bush, the GOP used the courts to successfully stop the recount, which they knew was the only way they could win.

    And that’s the real point. It was massive voter suppression by Republicans (much of which played out along racial lines–people of color have their votes discounted at rates that are several times that of white voters) that delivered the races in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 (and therefore the presidency) to the Rs. When Ds ignore this harsh reality and point the finger at irrelevant Greens instead, they’re doing a huge disservice to their own voters, not to mention democracy in general.

    Al Gore said nothing about the nearly 100,000 voters who were purged from the rolls in Florida just before the election (the majority of which were people of color), and his party did nothing to aid these folks in their legal efforts to have their votes reinstated. The Dumbocrats have no one but themselves to blame for the fact that they’re still losing elections to this day because of voter suppression that has only gotten worse over the years.

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