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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. [80][81][82] Raffensperger told The Washington Post that Graham had asked Raffensperger whether Raffensperger could disqualify all mail-in ballots in counties with more signature errors. The Democratic super PAC Priorities USA focused on Georgia near the end of the 2020 campaign, even sending former president Barack Obama to campaign in the state. "[90], In December 14, 2020, Georgia's electoral votes were cast for Biden, formalizing his victory in the state, which Biden won by 11,779 votes. Complaints regarding hours-long early-voting lines soon arose across the state, especially in Metro Atlanta counties; state officials attributed the long durations of lines to voter enthusiasm and lack of preparation by county boards of elections. Georgia, a key swing state, accounts for 16 electoral college votes. Further signalling Georgia's blue shift were the state 2018 midterms, where Democrat Stacey Abrams nearly won the governor's race against Republican Brian Kemp. [12] On April 9, the preference primary was again rescheduled to June 9, being combined with the regular, usually-separate primary for other federal and state primaries as well as local elections in some counties, the first time in Georgia history that all primaries were combined on the same date. This helped Biden to narrowly win the state by plurality. Republican Senator Mitt Romney, who lost to Barack Obama in 2012, echoed Mr Biden in a tweet, slamming Mr Trump's "overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election". He was speaking after a virtual meeting with governors, including Democrats and Republicans, about the coronavirus crisis on Thursday. The results will be certified on Friday. We proved it.". I just hope they keep it," he said touting new rules aimed as reducing prescription drug costs. The Secretary of State's office allowed counties to install multiple drop boxes for absentee voters to bypass the postal system, on the condition that the drop boxes be installed on county government property and surveilled with 24-hour cameras. US election: Georgia election official says ‘thinner margins’ causing extended delays – Nov 5, 2020. [83], The results of the election were officially certified on November 20, 2020. The 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Mr Raffensperger said on Friday that the result had been certified, posting the result to the secretary of state's website. This is because the table below includes write-in votes with the candidates unreported by the Georgia Secretary of State. They didn't, at least not in Georgia. Read about our approach to external linking. The presidential preference primary was originally scheduled for March 24, 2020. (AP) What happened with the AstraZeneca vaccine? Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis said the audit had gone "exactly as we expected" because, she said without evidence, the state had recounted illegal ballots. Biden performed well across the board; he won independent voters by 9 points, and was able to pick up 6% of Republican voters in the state. The presidential election is over, and President-elect Joe Biden will be heading to the White House in January. Trump won 8 of 14 congressional districts.[75]. The 2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 3, 2020 and on January 5, 2021 (as a runoff), to elect the Class II member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia. Due to the close margins in the initial election results, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced on November 11 that a full audit by hand would be conducted. Note: The percentages in this table are not the same as the totals above. On Friday, the self-proclaimed Trump supporter went on to say: "Like other Republicans. How is President Trump challenging the result? I'm disappointed, our candidate didn't win Georgia's electoral votes. Health Minister Jens Spahn says Europe does not have enough vaccines to prevent a third wave. [81] Graham acknowledged calling Raffensperger to find out how to "protect the integrity of mail-in voting" and "how does signature verification work"; but if Raffensperger "feels threatened by that conversation, he's got a problem". [87][88], On November 19, Judge Steven D. Grimberg, a federal judge who was appointed by Trump in 2019, denied the Trump campaign's request to have further delay in the certification of the election results in Georgia. But Gabriel Sterling, a Republican who serves as Georgia's voting system implementation manager, told CNN on Thursday: "One of the big complaints is these machines somehow flipped votes or changed votes or did stuff. It was also the first time since 1860 that Laurens County and Monroe County did not vote for the statewide winner. Biden subsequently cut into Trump's margin over the course of the week and eventually overtook Trump on Friday morning. Jon Ossoff and Rev. Demographic changes and population shifts made Georgia trend blue, starting in 2016; Donald Trump carried Georgia by just over 5 points against Hillary Clinton. What Biden's victory means for rest of world. On Thursday, Mr Raffensperger - who oversees the election process - said the hand audit of ballots had not altered Mr Biden's victory in the state. [35] 1,731,117 absentee ballots were requested by mail or online by voters by the deadline of October 23. The latest defeat comes as he has summoned Michigan state lawmakers to the White House on Friday ahead of that state's deadline to certify election results. Atlanta has attracted many transplants from heavily blue-leaning areas of the United States. Unlike the June 9 combined primary, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger declined to mail out absentee ballot request forms for the November 3 election, and instead established a website for registered voters to apply for an absentee ballot;[34] in addition, third-party non-profit organizations such as the Voter Participation Center sent out over 2.2 million absentee request forms to registered voters by mail, including to voters who did not have computers nor Internet access. The judge who dismissed the case was appointed by Mr Trump last year. Georgia election officials last week announced a recount in the state, with election workers starting the process of counting the votes by hand on Friday. Voter registration for the 2020 general elections ended on October 5 in Georgia, with a final total of 7,233,584 active registered voters,[33] an increase of 1,790,538 new voters since the 2016 election and 805,003 new voters since the 2018 gubernatorial election. Why the Dutch are the tallest people in the world, Striking news pictures from around the world. Georgia has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College. Also Read | US Election Results 2020: Philadelphia Police Probe 'Plot' to Attack Pennsylvania Convention Center Where Votes Are Being Counted. Referring to Biden’s 11,779-vote victory margin, Trump instructed Raffensperger that "there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated...I just want to find 11,780 votes. Voters in Georgia will elect one member to the U.S. Senate in the general election on November 8, 2022. [84] They filed a petition formally seeking the recount on November 21. "There will never be anything like this. Georgia's trend towards the Democrats can be partly explained by the growth of the Atlanta metropolitan area. Ben Gray/AP [78] Biden won urban areas by 35 points, while Trump carried the suburbs by 3 points, and these areas combined made up 85% of the electorate, showing the rapidly evolving demographics of Georgia. This poll's sponsor is the American Principles Project, a 501(c)(4) organization that supports the Republican Party. Sterling appealed to President Trump: "Stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence. [13] Secretary of State Raffensperger approved sending out absentee ballot application forms to 6.9 million active voters for the combined primary, of which 1.1 million absentee ballots were requested. How Russia glosses over its Covid death toll, Atlanta shootings and how we talk about violence, China and Taiwan face off in pineapple war. All of these cases have been dismissed or dropped. In Georgia, election officials in Fulton County, home to Atlanta and the largest trove of Democratic voters in the state, planned to keep counting roughly 36,000 remaining absentee ballots late into Wednesday night or even into Thursday morning. ", Of the election result, the president-elect - who is due to take office in January - said: "The vast majority of people believe it's legitimate.". The recount found the error rate was no greater than 0.73% in any county and Mr Biden's margin of victory over Mr Trump remained at under 0.5%. Republicans lost their final lawsuit in Georgia as a court rejected their effort to block the results' certification, which happened on Friday. Mr Trump has invited Michigan's Republican lawmakers to the White House on Friday, hinting at a possible change in tactics. 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Raffensperger recorded 126,876 votes having been cast early or absentee across the state on October 12, a record turnout for the first day of early voting in a Georgia general election. In Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign lost their bid in state court to throw out more than 2,000 postal ballots. [81] Graham stated that he was investigating in his own capacity as a senator, although he is the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Asked about Mr Trump's lack of concession, Mr Biden said the president was sending "incredibly damaging messages... to the rest of the world about how democracy functions" and that he would be remembered "as being one of the most irresponsible presidents in American history". This is also the first time since 1992 that Georgia voted more Democratic than neighboring Florida and the first time since 2000 that it voted more Democratic than also-neighboring North Carolina. [17] Voters who participated in the March 24 primary were able to vote again in the June 9 primary for all other offices.[18]. Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican. Democrats gained the Senate majority by winning both of Georgia’s January 5 runoff elections. Mr Biden's victory margin in the public vote overall stands at more than 5.9 million. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Sens. [94] The Democratic Party of Georgia announced the following electors to formally cast their vote for Biden:[95]. Mr Giuliani also said the campaign was withdrawing its last remaining lawsuit in Michigan. The 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia will be held on November 8, 2022 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Georgia.. These votes were not included in the official primary result, however they were separately counted. A victory of Biden in Georgia would seal his White House campaign, as he is only 6 electoral votes away from reaching the 270-mark. [84], The Trump campaign had until November 24, 2020, to request a recount of the results. [11] Georgia was one of seventeen states where President Trump received a smaller percentage of the vote than he did in the 2016 election.[a]. Mr Biden is set to take office in January as the 46th US president. Absentee mail ballots were first sent out on September 15. This would appear a long shot as no evidence of electoral fraud has been shown and to potentially disenfranchise millions of voters would spark uproar. The Democrat was leading by more than 17,000 votes on Wednesday morning. At a Thursday briefing, Mr Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani continued to lay out unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and accusations of electoral fraud. Leading up to the election, Georgia was seen as a key swing state in both the presidential and senatorial elections—both a regular Class II U.S. Senate election and a special election—due to the rapid growth and diversification of Atlanta's suburbs, where Republicans were once dominant. Unlike the statewide audit of each individual ballot by hand, the recount would involve a re-scanning of the voting machines. In his first public appearance in a week, he took no questions and seemed to imply he knew another administration would take over soon. States A-Z. We combine the average with our political-economy forecast, giving more weight to the polls as we get closer to election day. But one of the Michigan lawmakers going to the White House, Mike Shirkey, said earlier this week that the legislature appointing electors was "not going to happen". In direct response to election changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia; the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign launched numerous lawsuits contesting the election processes of Georgia. Mr Raffensperger on Friday said he was disappointed that his party lost but that "numbers don't lie". © 2021 BBC. US President-elect Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia, the BBC projects, the first Democratic candidate to do so since 1992. Georgia. Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris called … [89], On November 30, Gabriel Sterling, a top election official for the Georgia Secretary of State, gave a press conference in which he denounced death threats made against an election technician. However, the vice-chairman of Wayne County's canvassing board said an attempt by its two Republican members to rescind their earlier certification of the result was invalid, and the certification was binding. By October 21, 2,124,571 votes had been cast, over 50% of total votes cast in the 2016 election, and by October 30, over 50% of registered voters had cast their ballots. "It's hard to fathom how this man thinks," he continued, adding: "It's just outrageous what he's doing. Jon Ossoff’s lead has increased to 18,423 votes, or 0.42 percentage points. Mr Trump has so far refused to concede and has made allegations of widespread electoral fraud, without providing any evidence. What happens to your body in extreme heat? Most states determine these based on who won the popular vote there. "[93], On November 20, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified Georgia's electors for Biden. Early in-person voting began on October 12. March 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Washington Post has walked back one of its most explosive claims about former President Donald Trump’s reaction to election irregularities in Georgia… Nearly 5 million votes were cast in the presidential election in Georgia, and Democrat Joe Biden had been leading Republican President Donald Trump by about 14,000 votes. What happened with the AstraZeneca vaccine? Nevertheless, Biden also became the first Democrat to gain over 70% of the vote in Fulton County since FDR in 1944. Trump, on the other hand, performed strongest in the northern and southeastern parts of the state, which are rural and were historically a hotbed for conservative Dixiecrat politics. 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Polls of the state throughout the campaign indicated a close race, and prior to election day most news organizations considered Georgia a toss-up. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Sens. The Democrats' victory is their first in a presidential race in Georgia since Bill Clinton was elected in 1992. Overlapping sample with the previous SurveyMonkey/Axios poll, but more information available regarding sample size, Hawkins (G) and "Other candidate or write-in" with 0%, With voters who lean towards a given candidate, "Other candidate" with 1%; "No one" with 0%, With a likely voter turnout model featuring higher turnout than in the 2016 presidential election, With a likely voter turnout model featuring lower turnout than in the 2016 presidential election, Hawkins (G) and "Someone else" with 1%; would not vote with 0%, "Someone else" with 3%; would not vote with 0%, Hawkins (G) with 1%; "Another Third Party/Write-in" with 0%, "No one" with 0%; "Other candidate" with no voters, "Someone else" and would not vote with 0%, Overlapping sample with the previous Morning Consult poll, but more information available regarding sample size, "Someone else/third party" with 3%; would not vote with 0%, "Third party candidate" with 4%; would not vote with 2%, "Other" with 3%; "would not vote" with 1%, "Different candidate" with 8%; would not vote with 2%, "Undecided" with 5%; "Did not answer" with 2%, Wouldn't vote with 1%; don't know/refused with 3%, Wouldn't vote with 2%; don't know/refused with 5%, Wouldn't vote with 3%; don't know/refused with 4%, Wouldn't vote with 2%; don't know/refused with 3%, The Center for American Greatness is a pro-Trump organization, The American Action Forum is a 501 organisation which usually supports Republican candidates, The Human Rights Campaign endorsed Biden prior to this poll's sampling period, Poll sponsored by Democrat Raphael Warnock's campaign for U.S. Senate, Matt Lieberman is a Democratic candidate in Georgia's 2020 special Senate election, Fair Fight Action is the non-profit arm of Fair Fight, founded by Stacey Abrams who endorsed Biden prior to this poll's sampling period, This poll’s sponsor, DFER, primarily supports Democratic candidates, AFSCME endorsed Biden prior to this poll's sampling period.