It is predicted that Donald Trump will win Arizona in the US presidential elections, ensuring a clean sweep of all seven battleground states.

Securing the southwestern state, which was the last state to announce its results after days of counting, gave Trump the final 11 electoral college votes — giving him a total of 312 compared to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226 votes. The candidate needs 270 to win the White House.

The Republican Party has already secured the Senate, the upper house of the US Congress, but the race for the House of Representatives continues.

Trump has yet to comment on the update from Arizona late Saturday.

Arizona was previously a Republican stronghold, and Trump voted red for more than 20 years before losing out to outgoing President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Just over 10,000 votes separated the two candidates.

During this year’s campaign, the president-elect promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants living in the United States and promised to close the border.

He also said that he would complete the construction of the wall between the United States and Mexico, which was started during his first presidency. Mexico borders Arizona for hundreds of kilometers.

Both Trump and Vice President Harris have visited the state several times; the first focused heavily on deportation, the second on tighter border security and pathways to U.S. citizenship.

The number of crossings at the US southern border reached record levels at the end of last year during the Biden-Harris administration and began falling in 2024.

There are an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, and many have lived and worked in the country for decades.

Experts told the BBC that deportations on the scale Trump has promised would face huge challenges and slow economic growth; Trump also promised to “end inflation.”

As the US approached election day, polls suggested the election would be very tight, but ultimately Trump’s share of the vote increased across key demographic groups.

Earlier Saturday, Trump announced that Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo, who both served in the president-elect’s previous administration, would not be offered new positions when he returns to the White House in January.

He wrote in a social media post that he had “very much enjoyed working with them before” and thanked them for their service.

Some of Trump’s closest allies have accused Haley and Pompeo of being so-called deep state moles and suggested they would plan to undermine his “America First” agenda.

Former South Carolina Governor Haley had been Trump’s main rival for the Republican presidential nomination; He had harshly criticized his former boss during the primaries, calling him “unhinged.”

He eventually supported Trump, but Trump did not appeal to him to help his campaign during the final stages of the election.

While it wasn’t much of a surprise that Haley wasn’t shortlisted for a role, former CIA director Pompeo had been widely rumored to be a candidate for defense secretary.

The former Kansas congressman led Trump’s diplomatic offensive in the Middle East and frequently engaged the press in defense of his boss.

However, influential voices in the Trump world are lobbying against Pompeo and Haley.

They include veteran political strategist Roger Stone, who wrote on his website Friday that Trump should be wary of “neocons” who could form a “sinister fifth column” within his new administration. Stone singled out Haley and Pompeo.

It was also announced that weekend that Biden would host the president-elect in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

The meeting will bring together two arch-rivals in a showcase of national unity after one of the most combative American election campaigns in memory.

Such moments are a tradition among outgoing and incoming presidents; but Trump did not invite Biden when he lost his re-election bid in 2020 during the Covid pandemic. Contrary to tradition, he did not attend the inauguration ceremony of his successor.

New First Lady Melania Trump has been invited to the White House to meet with Jill Biden, but it is unclear when that will happen, an East Wing official told CNN.