Trump wins Georgia in 2024 presidential election, reclaiming the swing state after 2020 loss
Republican Donald Trump has won Georgia’s 16 electoral votes after narrowly losing the Peach State to President Biden in 2020.Trump bests Vice President Kamala Harris in the state 50.9% to 48.4%, with 94% of votes counted, the Associated Press reports.Trump’s comeback in Georgia follows his razor-thin loss in 2020, when he fell short of taking the state by just under 12,000 votes — or 0.23 points.Prior to 2020, Georgia hadn’t handed its electoral votes to a Democrat since Bill Clinton’s re-election in 1996.
The former president held a late-night rally in Macon Sunday in the seventh-inning stretch of his presidential campaign, echoing his election promises to mend an America overwhelmed with illegal immigration and crime.“The day I take the Oath of Office, the migrant invasion ends and the restoration of our country begins immediately,” he promised attendees, telling them to get out to the polls and vote.“We’re gonna close this thing out, and it’s party time,” Trump told Georgians.
In the 2024 presidential election, Georgia saw significant activity at the polls Tuesday after unprecedented early voting in the state, which some election officials predicted would turn precincts into ghost towns compared to typical Election Day activity.Georgia’s early voting period ended on Friday, Nov.
1, with more than 4 million votes cast at the close of the polls.That figure includes 3.7 million ballots cast early in person and more than 242,000 absentees by mail.
This cycle’s early voting period in the Peach State saw a record-breaking turnout, with 55% of ballots cast before Election Day.This cycle’s early vote turnout is about 80% of the state’s total turnout in the 2020 presidential contest when just under 5 million Georgians voted.
The 3.7 million-plus early in-person ballots cast also dwarfed the state’s early in-person voting total in 2020, which yielded roughly 2.7 million votes.Notably, Georgia saw a record number of black voters cast...