Trump wins Georgia: State election results and voting history
Former President Donald Trump has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, according to the Associated Press, a state he narrowly lost to Joe Biden in 2020.
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?? Past election history
The results of the last three presidential elections in Georgia are as follows:
2020: Joe Biden (D) defeated Donald Trump (R) by 0.24%.
2016: Donald Trump (R) defeated Hillary Clinton (D) by 5.13%.
2012: Mitt Romney (R) defeated Barack Obama (D) by 7.82%.
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?? Which way the state was trending
For more than 20 years, Georgia had been a reliably red state in presidential elections — until 2020, when Biden narrowly defeated Trump by just 11,779 votes, a margin of 0.24%, becoming the first Democratic presidential nominee to carry the state since Bill Clinton did in 1992.
?? Why it matters
Georgia was ground zero for Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. During an infamous post-election phone call, Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” him 11,780 more votes, the exact number he needed to win.