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Olivia Nuzzi

4 Nov, 6 tweets, 1 min read

This is huge. Now that he’s won Arizona, Biden can lose Pennsylvania and still get to 270 with Michigan, Wisconsin, and NE-2.

@NYMag

I wrote about Arizona’s importance for @NYMag last week. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Joe Biden is the first Democrat to win Arizona since Bill Clinton beat Bob Dole by 31,215 votes in 1996.

Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by a narrow margin in Arizona in 2016, and it’s worth noting that he spent considerable time and resources there over the last few weeks, with multiple rallies — sometimes multiple rallies in one day.

It didn’t reverse his luck. Perhaps because, for the voters he was losing there — white college educated women — not seeing enough of Trump was not the problem.

Also it’s worth noting that Trump’s attacks on John McCain — and Cindy McCain’s decision to endorse Biden — did seem to harm Trump in AZ, at least anecdotally, according to several people I spoke to.

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