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Arizona Looking To Flip Blue With 75% Of Votes Reported

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With three-quarters of votes counted, Joe Biden holds a lead of around 200k votes in Arizona and looks on course to take the state's 11 electoral college votes, in what could put the election on course for an electoral college tie.

  • In a still unlikely but not impossible scenario, should Biden take Arizona, and go on to win Wisconsin and Michigan, and Trump holds onto Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, Biden would be on 269 EC votes, while Trump would be on 267.
  • The election would then come down to the two swing congressional districts that deliver their own votes to the electoral college, Nebraska's second district, and Maine's second district.
  • In 2016 Trump carried both of these counties. If he does so again, it would result in a 269-269 split in the electoral college.
  • The decision of who becomes president would then go to state delegations in the House of Representatives, with the Senate deciding who becomes the Vice-President.

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