Three more television networks have projected that President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in Arizona, one of the states where he has sought to overturn the election.
Three major television networks, CNN, ABC and NBC, projected late Thursday night that Biden had won Arizona, the first Democrat to do so since President Bill Clinton in 1996.
The Associated Press and Fox News called the state for Biden on election night, but other news organizations had held off. The Fox projection infuriated Trump and he has been lashing out at the network on Twitter and elsewhere ever since.
Trump trails Biden in Arizona by about 11,500 votes.
After the three networks released their projections, Meghan McCain tweeted a photograph of her late father, John McCain, a Republican who represented the state in the U.S. Senate for more than 30 years, with the words: "I like people who don't lose Arizona."
That was a reference to a remark Trump made during the 2016 campaign about John McCain, a frequent critic and one of the country's most revered veterans. "He was a war hero because he was captured," Trump said. "I like people who weren't captured."
In order to reverse the results of last week's vote and get the 270 electoral votes required to win, Trump, who has made baseless claims of election fraud, would have to move at least three battleground states into his column.
Overall, Biden now leads Trump by more than 5 million votes.
