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    Trump and Harris are at loggerheads

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    Donald Trump and Kamala Harris were neck-and-neck in initial statewide results released shortly after polls closed Tuesday night, making this year’s unprecedented and unpredictable race for the White House too close to call Tuesday evening.

    According to incomplete, unofficial results released by the Arizona Secretary of State at 3 a.m. on Wednesday, Trump was narrowly ahead and had widened his lead from earlier in the night.

    At the county level, early results showed Harris narrowly leading Trump in vote-rich Maricopa County shortly after polls closed Tuesday night. About 60% of Arizona voters live in Maricopa County.

    Maricopa County results represent 1.1 million votes; This constitutes 43.43% of the 2.5 million voters who have the right to vote in the elections in the district. The county expects 2.1 million voters to participate and estimates 700,000 ballots remaining in the coming days.

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    The vote count released by Maricopa County includes votes received through Tuesday, Oct. 29, by county. In-person Election Day votes will be posted throughout the evening. As of 19.30 on Tuesday night, voters continued to vote. In Arizona, polls closed at 19:00, but voters who lined up before this time were able to cast their votes after the deadline.

    Arizona is at the center of presidential action. The battleground state has 11 electoral votes that will play a key role in determining which candidate wins the White House.

    The dramatic fight for the presidency was marked by chaos and a list of unexpected events.

    Only a few times in history has a former president lost and reappointed the White House or a president has stepped aside in the middle of a re-election campaign. Additionally, it is rare in US history for presidential candidates to be convicted of a felony.

    The race is deadlocked in Arizona, according to the latest polls. Trump narrowly led Harris, but the numbers were so close that both candidates had a chance of winning the Grand Canyon State.

    Voters’ frustrations with the economy and immigration are increasing Trump’s small advantage among Arizona voters. The former president struck a confident tone at recent Arizona rallies, even musing on stage in Prescott Valley that he should have been in the pivotal state of Pennsylvania instead.

    Trump, who said “We will win Arizona” at a rally held in Tempe in October, stated that he was satisfied with the early voting numbers. “We will beat Kamala Harris.”

    Harris isn’t far behind, though. He is the most powerful voice on democracy and reproductive rights, and his campaign is based on a massive ground game operation that will put him over the top in a state where Democrats have made big gains under Trump.

    “It’s going to be a very tight race all the way to the end. And we’re underdogs,” Harris told a rally crowd in Phoenix last month.

    The fight for the White House was set to escalate into a 2020 rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden, but it changed dramatically in late June when Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump sent Democrats into a panic. The president was impeached by his own party within weeks. He withdrew his re-election bid in July, long after the primary had ended.

    That same month, Trump was nearly killed when a gunman opened fire live on air during the former president’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania. As Secret Service agents led him away from the stage, a bullet struck Trump in the ear, leaving Trump covered in blood but otherwise unharmed. He would be the target of another failed assassination attempt in September.

    Harris moved to replace Biden just weeks before the Democratic National Convention, distracting high-profile members of her party with her own presidential ambitions and the prospect of an open convention. In her new role as a candidate, Harris had only three months to prepare her presidential campaign. He has taken over Biden’s campaign operations across the country, including Arizona, which has been laying the groundwork for the general election since February.

    This story will be updated as election results are announced.

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