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Trump Wins Arizona, Sweeping All Seven Battleground States, Edison Research Says

06 November 2024, US, West Palm Beach: US Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump is pictured at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. (dpa)
06 November 2024, US, West Palm Beach: US Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump is pictured at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. (dpa)
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Trump Wins Arizona, Sweeping All Seven Battleground States, Edison Research Says

06 November 2024, US, West Palm Beach: US Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump is pictured at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. (dpa)
06 November 2024, US, West Palm Beach: US Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump is pictured at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. (dpa)

Donald Trump has won the presidential election in Arizona, Edison Research projected on Saturday, completing a sweep of all seven battleground states and locking in a decisive Electoral College victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Republican Trump, who had secured the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House by early on Wednesday, now has what is expected to be a final total of 312 votes to Harris' 226.

In addition to Arizona, Trump won the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Nevada. In 2020, Joe Biden defeated Trump by winning six of the seven swing states - and narrowly losing North Carolina and won 306 Electoral College votes to Trump's 232.

Trump also won 306 in his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton.

The Associated Press said Trump has won 74.6 million votes nationwide, or 50.5%, to Harris' 70.9 million, or 48%.

After Congress certifies the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, Trump and his incoming vice president, US Senator JD Vance, are due to take office on Jan. 20.

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Pay up or Face Climate-Led Disaster for Humanity, UN Chief Warns COP29 Summit

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers his speech at the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, 12 November 2024. (EPA)
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers his speech at the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, 12 November 2024. (EPA)
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Pay up or Face Climate-Led Disaster for Humanity, UN Chief Warns COP29 Summit

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers his speech at the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, 12 November 2024. (EPA)
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers his speech at the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, 12 November 2024. (EPA)

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders at the COP29 summit on Tuesday to "pay up" to prevent climate-led humanitarian disasters, and said time was running out to limit a destructive rise in global temperatures.

Nearly 200 nations have gathered at the annual UN climate summit in Baku, focused this year on raising hundreds of billions of dollars to fund a global transition to cleaner energy sources and limit the climate damage caused by carbon emissions.

But on the day of the summit designed to bring together world leaders and generate political momentum for the marathon negotiations, many of the leading players were not present to hear Guterres' message. After victory for Donald Trump, a climate change denier, in the US presidential election, President Joe Biden will not attend. Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a deputy and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is not attending because of political developments in Brussels.

"On climate finance, the world must pay up, or humanity will pay the price," Guterres said in a speech. "The sound you hear is the ticking clock. We are in the final countdown to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and time is not on our side."

This year is set to be the hottest on record. Scientists say evidence shows global warming and its impacts are unfolding faster than expected and the world may already have hit 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 F) of warming above the average pre-industrial temperature - a critical threshold beyond which it is at risk of irreversible and extreme climate change.

As COP29 began, unusual east coast US wildfires that triggered air quality warnings for New York continued to grow. In Spain, survivors are coming to terms with the worst floods in the country's modern history and the Spanish government has announced billions of euros for reconstruction.