President-elect Joe Biden has won Georgia, according to Decision Desk HQ and Insider, a huge breakthrough for the Democratic Party in their protracted fight …
President-elect Joe Biden has won Georgia, according to Decision Desk HQ and Insider, a huge breakthrough for the Democratic Party in their protracted fight to regain electoral relevancy in the Deep South. It is the first time that a Democratic presidential nominee has won the Peach State since Bill Clinton, who, in 1992, carried the state by less than 1% of the vote. With nearly all precincts reporting, Biden earned 2,472,154 votes, or 49.5%, compared to 2,458,003 votes, or 49.2%, for President Donald Trump. Biden’s statewide lead amounts to 14,152 votes, or 0.3%, out of nearly 5 million votes cast. The president-elect has now secured the state’s 16 electoral votes, bringing his final Electoral College count to 306, well above the 270 electoral vote threshold for victory. Trump will earn 232 Electoral College votes. Due to the closeness of the race, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced on November 11 that he would oversee a statewide audit of the presidential race, where every ballot will be counted by hand. Each of Georgia’s 159 counties will then have to report final vote totals by November 18, just two days before the state’s November 20 deadline for certifying the election results. The audit is not expected the change the overall outcome of the state’s results. In securing his statewide win, Biden followed the formula of 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, routing the opposition in Fulton County, which encompasses Atlanta, while ramping up the vote in DeKalb, Cobb, and Gwinnett counties.
