Biden pulls ahead of Trump in Georgia
November 6, 2020
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has overtaken President Donald Trump in Georgia, closing the gap in the traditionally Republican stronghold after two full days of vote-counting.
As of Friday morning, Biden was less than 1,000 votes ahead of Trump, with both candidates resting at 49.4 percent support and 99 percent of expected ballots tallied.
Georgia’s potential flip from red to blue on the still-fluid 2020 map comes as the nation remains fixed on the state and the two other outstanding battlegrounds that could decide the presidency, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Trump won Georgia’s 16 Electoral College votes by 5.7 percentage points in 2016. Republican presidential candidates have carried Georgia in every election since 1992, when Democrat Bill Clinton was victorious there.
Biden currently leads Trump in the race to secure 270 electoral college votes, 264-214, and capturing any one of the remaining battlegrounds could catapult him to victory. Trump would have to claim North Carolina — where he has led consistently but which has yet to be called — and also carry Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania to win reelection.
Biden’s narrow new advantage in Georgia is sure to please some Democrats who were deflated by their nominee’s performance in other states viewed as competitive ahead of Election Day, including Florida, Iowa, North Carolina and Ohio.
But Biden has already flipped at least three states Trump carried in 2016: the Midwestern battlegrounds of Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as Arizona — which has not been won by a Democrat since 1996 and which Trump is still contesting.
Trump, however, has yet to expand his 2016 map.
Source: https://www.politico.com/
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