Georgia's election commission on Saturday confirmed the ruling party's parliamentary victory after a meeting disrupted by an opposition politician throwing paint at the commission chairman.
Late Tuesday night, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, R, said at a press conference that "Donald Trump has an insurmountable lead with the number of votes outstanding." "It looks like this is pretty much done," he said. "I think the results are pretty well baked in."
Former President Donald Trump has flipped a Georgia county red for the first time in 20 years after Democrats saw their margin shrink. Rural Baldwin County was one of at least three swing counties in the battleground state of Georgia that could have gone for either candidate.
“We’ve shown the country that Georgia remains a red state, with big wins up and down the ticket,” said state House Speaker Pro Tempore Jan Jones, R-Milton. “We will take this mandate from the voters to continue lowering taxes, protecting our neighborhoods and quality of life, and providing more options for Georgia’s students to thrive.”
View live results of the Georgia presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
With the victory, Trump nets 16 electoral votes in the state that was the focal point in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are both hoping to win Georgia and take its 16 Electoral College votes.The battleground state has been closely watched and contested, with the two major-party candidates competing to secure its 16 electoral votes on the path to 270.
Elected less than four years ago, Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock have become a Southern battleground’s star campaigners.
A trial is set to get underway for a man accused of killing a Georgia nursing student earlier this year, in a case that fanned the immigration debate in the last election cycle.