Donald Trump won the state of Georgia, a big boost to his chances of returning to the White House.
It came just after his first victory in a battleground state in North Carolina.
The former president was officially projected by the Associated Press as the winner of the Peach State, dealing a major blow to Kamala Harris and a sign that her path to the White House is rapidly narrowing.
The call came after pre-election polls suggested Georgia was on a knife’s edge.
Trump and Harris were neck and neck in the state for weeks, with the most recent average putting the former president just 1.3 points ahead of the vice president.
The state’s 16 Electoral College votes will now count toward the 270 Trump needs to win the presidency.
Republican presidential candidate former US President Donald Trump delivers a speech at a campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion on October 28, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump won the state of Georgia again after securing it in 2016 and losing it in 2020.
Trump’s election watch party was still fuming right after the call in Georgia, as the former president is expected to take the stage soon.
Meanwhile, Harris’ election night event at Howard University began to fall apart.
His supporters left en masse after learning that the vice president would not be addressing the crowd tonight.
Georgia 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 admitting it before all votes in the state had been counted.
Harris supporters left en masse after hearing that the vice president would not address the crowd tonight.
The closely divided swing state voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 by just a narrow margin of 12,000 votes.
It was so close that the 2020 Georgia results were challenged in court by the Trump camp, although Biden’s victory ultimately stood.
Trump’s battle with Georgia’s election result is still ongoing after he accused the state of baseless claims of “widespread fraud.”
He was eventually charged for his alleged role in an operation organized to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state.
That case, brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, is currently on hold after it was revealed that she hired her lover to help prosecute the former president.
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In 2016, the former president also beat his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 50.3% to 45.3%.
The two candidates zigzagged across the state in the weeks leading up to the election.
Georgia received a series of bomb threats at polling places across the state on Tuesday.
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The FBI confirmed that fake “Russian bomb threats” had been made at polling places in several states, including Georgia, as Americans cast their ballots in one of the closest elections in US history.
Polling places in the swing states of Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin were also targets of the Russian plot.
But so far none of the threats have been “determined to be credible,” the FBI said in a statement on Election Day.
“The FBI is aware of bomb threats against polling places in several states, many of which appear to come from Russian email domains.”
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After an early morning bomb threat in Atlanta, Georgia, closed two polling places, another round of threats came in the evening that suspended voting and prompted evacuations.
Police were called to the Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library for a bomb threat Tuesday night.
DeKalb County had evacuations at seven different locations, five of them polling stations. Officials are asking for extensions to voting times and saying those in line will be able to vote.
Police have carried out multiple bomb raids in different areas as threatening calls came in.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said early Tuesday that Russians were involved in the threats, particularly one that closed a school and polling place in nearby Fulton County, south of Atlanta.
