Trump wins Georgia in 2024 presidential election, reclaiming the swing state after 2020 loss

Republican Donald Trump has won Georgia’s 16 electoral votes aft narrowly losing nan Peach State to President Biden successful 2020.

Trump bests Vice President Kamala Harris successful nan authorities 50.9% to 48.4%, pinch 94% of votes counted, nan Associated Press reports.

Trump’s comeback successful Georgia follows his razor-thin nonaccomplishment successful 2020, erstwhile he fell short of taking nan authorities by conscionable nether 12,000 votes — aliases 0.23 points. Prior to 2020, Georgia hadn’t handed its electoral votes to a Democrat since Bill Clinton’s re-election successful 1996.

The erstwhile president held a late-night rally successful Macon Sunday successful nan seventh-inning agelong of his statesmanlike campaign, echoing his predetermination promises to mend an America overwhelmed pinch forbidden migration and crime.

“The time I return nan Oath of Office, nan migrant penetration ends and nan restoration of our state originates immediately,” he promised attendees, telling them to get retired to nan polls and vote.

“We’re gonna adjacent this point out, and it’s statement time,” Trump told Georgians.

In nan 2024 statesmanlike election, Georgia saw significant activity astatine nan polls Tuesday aft unprecedented early voting successful nan state, which immoderate predetermination officials predicted would move precincts into shade towns compared to emblematic Election Day activity.

Georgia’s early voting play ended connected Friday, Nov. 1, with much than 4 cardinal votes cast astatine nan adjacent of nan polls.

That fig includes 3.7 cardinal ballots formed early successful personification and much than 242,000 absentees by mail.

This cycle’s early voting play successful nan Peach State saw a record-breaking turnout, pinch 55% of ballots formed earlier Election Day.

This cycle’s early ballot turnout is astir 80% of nan state’s full turnout successful nan 2020 statesmanlike title erstwhile conscionable nether 5 cardinal Georgians voted.

The 3.7 million-plus early in-person ballots formed besides dwarfed nan state’s early in-person voting full successful 2020, which yielded astir 2.7 cardinal votes.

Notably, Georgia saw a record number of achromatic voters cast ballots during nan early voting play — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger reported past week that arsenic of Wednesday, astir 873,000 achromatic Georgians had already voted.

The lion’s stock of Georgia’s votes travel from metro Atlanta counties wherever nan mostly of voters reside: Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties.

Last week, Georgia predetermination officials began urging voters to put absentee ballots successful designated driblet boxes alternatively than message them via nan US Postal work — for fearfulness that they whitethorn not beryllium received by nan closing of nan polls Tuesday.

The polls person been tight successful Georgia passim nan three-month predetermination play since Vice President Harris entered nan race, pinch some nan FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics averages consistently giving Trump a constrictive advantage — prevention nan first week of September erstwhile Harris was surging successful nan polls.

October polling showed varying degrees of an advantage for nan erstwhile president.

One broad YouGov canvass surveyed 2,663 apt voters from Oct. 1 to Oct. 25, uncovering Trump 5 points up pinch 51% support to Harris’ 46%.

A Marist College canvass of 1,193 apt voters from Oct. 17 to Oct. 22 found nan 2 candidates dormant even astatine 49%, but different study of registered voters conducted successful nan aforesaid play gave Harris a one-point separator complete Trump.

An AtlasIntel study of 1,429 apt Georgia voters conducted Oct. 25 to Oct. 29 recovered Trump 3 points ahead of Harris, 50% to 47%.

The title successful Georgia tightened aft Biden dropped retired of nan title successful July, narrowing Trump’s advantage complete nan Democratic summons from nan 4 to 7-point scope down to nan 0 to 3-point range.

Trump’s triumph thigh successful Georgia comes connected nan heels of nan ex-prez making peace pinch Governor Brian Kemp, a Republican he’d been astatine likelihood pinch complete Biden’s 2020 predetermination triumph successful nan state, which nan erstwhile president adamantly disputed.

Kemp’s refusal to telephone a typical legislative convention to overturn nan state’s predetermination results sparked Trump’s ire.

The 2020 predetermination results are astatine nan guidelines of nan years-long feud betwixt Trump and Georgia Republicans. Prior to that his Georgia capacity was perfectly peachy, beating Hillary Clinton by a 5-point separator successful nan plaything authorities successful 2016.

But his re-election bid successful 2020 — and precocious floor plan denial of nan results — arguably costs Republicans nan Senate majority, erstwhile incumbent GOP Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler some lost their seats in a January 2021 runoff predetermination to Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock respectively.

In Georgia, if neither campaigner captures 50% of nan ballot successful a wide predetermination contest, nan title will beryllium decided successful a runoff betwixt nan apical 2 vote-getters. That was nan lawsuit for some Senate races successful 2020, prompting a runoff that dragged retired nan predetermination play by respective months — and near nan equilibrium of powerfulness successful nan Senate successful question.

Ultimately, those Georgia Republicans’ losses successful 2021 flipped 2 antecedently coagulated reddish seats into Democratic hands, creating a 50-50 divided successful nan precocious enclosure and a de-facto Democratic mostly pinch Vice President Kamala Harris arsenic nan Senate tiebreaker.

The GOP suffered different nonaccomplishment successful Georgia nan pursuing year, erstwhile Trump-endorsed Senate campaigner and erstwhile shot prima Herschel Walker mislaid nan Georgia runoff predetermination to Warnock successful December 2022.

Walker’s conclusion delivered Warnock a afloat Senate word and helped Democrats clinch a 51-49 mostly successful nan Senate — on pinch a pick-up successful Pennsylvania, wherever now-Senator John Fetterman defeated personage TV expert Mehmet Oz.