Trump received more than 1.77 million votes, setting a new record for votes cast for any candidate in the history of statewide elections in Arizona. Trump reclaimed the largest county in the state, Maricopa, although it once again voted to the left of the state, a trend that started in 2016 and foreshadowed his 2020 loss of the state. Harris did not get over 60% of the vote in a single county. Arizona was one of three swing states, along with
Michigan and
Pennsylvania, where Harris received fewer raw votes than Biden in 2020. In addition, of the seven swing states, she suffered her worst raw vote drop-off compared to Biden in Arizona, winning 90,000 fewer votes. Notably, Arizona was the only state in which the Trump campaign turned over most campaign functions to well-funded outside groups such as
Turning Point Action (which is headquartered in Phoenix), who focused exclusively on turning out low-propensity Republicans instead of winning over Democrats, as Republicans represent a majority of Arizona's party registration. Specifically, Turning Point significantly influenced Arizona college students, typically low-propensity voters, to support
Donald Trump. A key strategy was founder
Charlie Kirk’s high-profile "Prove Me Wrong" events on college campuses, where he debated students on critical issues, as thousands more watched. The Harris campaign, on the other hand, handled her campaigning in-house. Trump's gains in Arizona were mostly powered by suburban voters returning to the Republican Party and large gains among Hispanic Americans. In Maricopa County, Arizona's largest and the only county to flip, the vast majority of precincts shifted to the right, with Trump's strongest gains coming from traditionally conservative
East Valley cities that had been drifting left as well as Hispanic-majority neighborhoods in south and east
Phoenix. Trump also gained in Arizona's Hispanic-majority border counties, gaining over 11% in
Yuma County, which had been shifting heavily since Trump first won it in 2016. He also made gains in traditionally Democratic counties that remained in the Democratic column, such as
Santa Cruz County, which trended over 9% Republican from 2020 - Trump's second largest improvement in the state. Illegal immigration was a major concern among border counties that shifted towards Trump. Despite Harris losing the state, Democrat
Ruben Gallego did win the
2024 United States Senate election in Arizona, in part due to
ticket-splitting and because some Trump voters did not vote down-ballot.
Exit poll data CNN conducted an exit poll in Arizona for both the presidential race and concurrent U.S. Senate race. They surveyed 4,612 voters across the state. == See also ==