Former U.S President, Donald Trump is projected to win the key battleground state of Georgia, which he narrowly lost in 2020.
This is Trump’s second projected win for a battleground state. He is also projected to win North Carolina.
There are 16 electoral votes at stake in Georgia. It takes at least 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election.
Georgia is a relatively new battleground state in presidential politics and helped deliver President Joe Biden his White House victory in 2020. Georgia flipped blue for the first time in nearly 30 years when Biden won by just 11,779 votes.
Republicans have won every other Georgia presidential vote since 1996.
Georgia became a focal point of national politics after the 2020 presidential election, when Trump called on Georgia state officials, including Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to flip the state for him to win.
The former President and several of his advisers have been indicted for their actions in Georgia during the 2020 election.
While the state has two Democratic U.S. senators, Trump’s projected victory proves Georgia still has a Republican bent.
Harris In Need Of Blue Wall States’ Win
With former President Donald Trump projected to win in North Carolina and leading in all other battleground states, Vice President Kamala Harris’ path to victory is narrowing, making wins in the “Blue Wall” states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, particularly the latter, all the more important.
John King said, “If Donald Trump also carries Georgia, the Vice President cannot afford to lose Pennsylvania.” “Yes, Nevada is out there. Arizona is out there. Michigan and Wisconsin are out there,” he stated, but their electoral votes would not add up to a win.
With 93% of votes reported in Georgia just after midnight, Trump led by over 2 points. While there are still outstanding votes in the Peach State, but they would have to come in overwhelmingly for Harris to turn the tide. “If [Trump] wins in Georgia, [Harris’] path is so limited,” King said.
With 84% of votes counted in Pennsylvania, Trump has just over a 3 point lead, though the Vice President is building her lead in the democratic stronghold of Philadelphia. “If you’re looking at the map now, you’d so much rather be Donald Trump,” King said.
Meanwhile, the election night party at Howard University, which began as a jubilant celebration of Harris and the prospect of a new presidency, began to sour as the Democrat’s path to victory narrowed.
Harris’ campaign co-chair, Cedric Richmond, told the audience gathered at what was planned to be the Democratic nominee’s election night party that the campaign was not giving up the fight against Trump.
“We still have votes to count. We still have states that have not been called yet. We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken.
“So you won’t hear from the Vice President tonight but you will hear from her tomorrow.”
Cedric Richmond,
Richmond said that Harris would return to Howard “not only to address her supporters but to address the nation.”
There are noticeable similarities between then-Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton’s election night in 2016 and the one that Harris had planned for tonight at Howard University.
Neither Clinton nor Harris, appeared at their election night party, despite both heading into Election Day believing they were about to defeat Donald Trump.
Both sent top aides to inform the demoralized audience that the woman would not speak. And there were noticeable similarities between what each man said.
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