Former President Donald Trump has won Georgia, nabbing its 16 electoral votes and flipping the state after President Joe Biden won it by just over 11,000 votes in 2020.
Trump is now at 246 electoral votes compared to Vice President Kamala Harris’s 210. In order to win the election, a candidate needs to garner 270 electoral votes.
Georgia is widely considered to be one of the seven swing states in this year’s presidential election, and perhaps one of the tightest outside of Pennsylvania. Trump was favored to narrowly win the state by just one to two points in most recent polls ahead of Election Day, according to FiveThirtyEight.
The win will add one of the most competitive states in the country to the Trump column. With more than 95% of votes reported, Trump currently has just under 50.9% of the vote in the state, according to the New York Times.
Notably, Georgia had a record high election turnout in this year’s election. Trump improved on his 2020 vote total by around 140,000 votes. Harris received about 10,000 more votes than President Joe Biden did in 2020.
Contact executive editor Caitlin McCormack at caitlin.mccormack@richmond.edu.
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