Joe Biden won Arizona in the 2020 election by 10,000 votes.
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Platypus Economics with Justin WolfersAug 28, 2026
Multiple independent sources (NPR, Cronkite News, DW, Newsweek, Wikipedia) report Biden won Arizona in 2020 by a little over 10,000 votes, consistent with the claim's figure of 10,000. The claim matches the passage's own statement and the extraction faithfully reflects it; the AP fact-check on fraud does not dispute the margin.
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… The other way that people count by how much you won the election was they look at the specific swing states, and so the important swing states in 2020 were Arizona, where Biden won by 10,000 votes, and this report reckons that they found 1,100 fraudulent votes; Georgia, the Biden won by 12,000 votes, this report reckons 400 of them were fraudulent; and Wisconsin, the Biden won by 21,000 votes, this report reckons that 500 of them were fraudulent. …
Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. NPR's 2020 analysis reports Biden's statewide margin in Arizona as a little over 10,000 votes (10,377 per its graphic).[2]
Supports. Cronkite News (2024) and DW (2026) both state Biden won Arizona in 2020 by just over 10,000 votes.[3][4]
Supports. AP's 2021 vote-fraud analysis lists Arizona's Biden margin as the base against which 198 fraud cases represent 1.9%, implying a margin near 10,000 votes, and does not dispute the win.[1]
Supports. Newsweek and Wikipedia's Arizona election page both describe Biden's Arizona win as just under or by less than 11,000 votes.[5][6]
Context. Certified official results show Biden at 1,672,143 versus Trump at 1,661,686, a difference of 10,457 votes, consistent with the claim's figure.[7][8][9]
Sources
9 sources: 1 fact-checker, 3 tier 2, 5 not rated
- 1Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds - AP Newsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Map: How Joe Biden Defeated President Trump In 2020 ...npr.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 3Despite lingering challenges, Trump, Biden cruise to victories in ...cronkitenews.azpbs.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Wisconsin, Arizona confirm Biden win – DW – 11/30/2020dw.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Arizona Maps Show How State Flipped to Donald Trumpnewsweek.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 62020 Arizona elections - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Arizona Election Results 2020 | Live Map Updatespolitico.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 8Arizona 2020 live election resultswashingtonpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 92020 Arizona President Election Resultsdetroitnews.com · not rated · cited for: context
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