Georgia 2024 results update: Shocked by fraud allegations. Will Georgia elect Trump or Harris in 2020?

Latest update:November 05, 2024 04:33 PM IST

Polls show Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in a tight race, but demographic changes are likely to benefit Harris, who is courting minority voters across Georgia.

Donald Trump, who won Georgia in 2016, is hoping to hold off Kamala Harris and return the Peach State to red this year. (AP)

With 16 electoral votes, Georgia has become one of the most closely watched states in the race for the White House in 2024.

In 2020, President Joe Biden flipped the state, marking the historic first time a Democratic candidate has won Georgia since former President Bill Clinton achieved the feat in 1992. Donald Trump, who won Georgia in 2016, hopes to keep Kamala Harris at bay. and move the Peach State red again this year.

The southeastern state became an election hotspot late in Trump’s first term, and controversy is growing after prosecutors in Georgia charged Trump with election interference after he called state officials urging them to “find” enough votes. to overturn Biden’s narrow 2020 victory. But in support of Trump, the case is being put on hold until after the election.

Let’s look at Georgia and how the front lines are drawn:

• Georgia has voted Republican in eight of the last 10 presidential races. However, it helped turn the tide for Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, when he flipped the state by an extremely narrow margin.

• Nearly five million people voted for president in 2020, with 2,473,633 votes cast for Biden and 2,461,854 votes for Trump. However, the situation turned ugly when Trump said the election had been “stolen.” Trump and more than a dozen of his allies were later indicted in connection with an alleged plot to overturn the election results.

• Polls show Harris and Trump in a close race, and both campaigns have committed significant resources to winning the state. The demographic changes are likely to benefit Harris, who is courting minority voters across Georgia.

• Georgia’s move from red to purple is widely attributed to diversification in the Atlanta metro area, where the population grew 15% between 2010 and 2020 while the white population fell 2%, according to the latest census data.

• Georgia is expected to count ballots relatively quickly because officials were allowed to begin processing mail-in ballots on the third Monday before Election Day, although they cannot begin counting them until 7 a.m. on Election Day.

• Harris’ most likely path to victory runs through the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which have a combined 44 electoral votes. If she wins all three, as well as all the other non-swing states that Biden won in 2020, she will reach the 270 electoral vote threshold needed to win the election.

• If Trump wins one of the Rust Belt states (likely Pennsylvania, according to polls), and also wins Georgia and North Carolina, he will likely break 270.

• Early women voters in Georgia outscored male voters by double digits, which Harris allies see as a positive sign for Democrats.