Donald Trump wins critical state of Georgia in another devastating blow for Kamala Harris
Donald Trump has won the state of Georgia in a massive boost for his chances of returning to the White House.
His win at 50.7 percent of the vote to Harris’ 48.5 percent, came just after his first battleground state victory in North Carolina.
The Associated Press officially projected the former president as the winner of the Peach State in a huge blow for Kamala Harris in a sign her path to the White House is rapidly narrowing.
The call came after pre-election polls had suggested Georgia was on a knife edge.
Trump and Harris were neck-and-neck in the state for weeks, with the most recent average putting the ex-president up just 1.3 points above the VP.
The state’s 16 Electoral College votes will now count toward the 270 Trump needs to win the presidency.
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion on October 28, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump once again won the state of Georgia after securing it in 2016 and losing it in 2020
Trump’s election watch party was still raging on just after the Georgia call as the former president is expected to take the stage soon.
Meanwhile, Harris’ Election Night event at Howard University started to unravel.
Her supporters left in droves after hearing that the VP would not be addressing the crowd tonight.
Former Rep. Cedric Richmond – a Harris campaign co-chair – said after midnight Wednesday that the vice president would not be coming out.
Richmond made the announcement to the stragglers at the party, as many attendees had already gone home after results around the country tilted toward the reelection of former President Donald Trump.
Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger admitted that Trump had an ‘insurmountable lead’ in the state hours before the race was called.
Raffensperger, a Republican, sparked fury for making the admission before all votes had been counted in the state.
Harris supporters left in droves after hearing that the VP would not be addressing the crowd tonight
Supporters of Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris react to election results
Meanwhile, Republicans were cheering at Trump’s watch party in Palm Beach, Florida
The closely divided swing state voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 by just a slim 12,000 vote margin.
It was so close that Georgia’s 2020 results were challenged in court by Trump’s camp, though Biden’s victory ultimately stood.
Former Rep. Cedric Richmond – a Harris campaign co-chair – said after midnight Wednesday that the vice president would not be coming out
Trump’s battle with the Georgia election result is still ongoing after he accused the state of unsubstantiated claims of ‘widespread fraud.’
He was ultimately indicted for his alleged role in an organized operation to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.
That case, brought by embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, is currently on hold after it was revealed she hired her lover to help prosecute the former president.
In 2016 the former president similarly won over Democrat challenger Hillary Clinton 50.3% to 45.3%.
The two candidates zigzagged across the state for weeks leading to the election.
Georgia had a string of bomb threats called into polling places throughout the state on Tuesday.
The FBI confirmed that fake ‘Russian bomb threats’ had been made to polling places in several states – including Georgia – as Americans cast their ballots in one of the closest elections in U.S. history.
Polling places in swing states Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin were also targeted in the plot by the Russians.
But none of the threats have been ‘determined to be credible thus far,’ the FBI said in a statement on Election Day.
‘The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains.’
After an early morning bomb scare in Atlanta, Georgia, shuttered two polling locations, another round of threats came in the evening halting voting and prompting evacuations.
Police have responded to Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library due to a bomb threat on Tuesday evening.
DeKalb County had evacuations at seven different locations – five of them polling stations. Officials there are requesting extensions in voting times and saying those in line there will be allowed to vote.
Police have done multiple bomb sweeps at different areas as threatening calls have come in.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said earlier Tuesday that Russians were involved in the threats, particularly one that shuttered a school and polling location in nearby Fulton County south of Atlanta.