Fox News projects Trump defeats Harris in Georgia

The Fox News Decision Desk projects that erstwhile President Donald Trump has won the state of Georgia successful the 2024 White House race.

The Peach State’s 16 Electoral College votes volition spell to the ex-president aft helium narrowly mislaid determination by little than 1% successful 2020. 

Both helium and Vice President Kamala Harris enactment important time, wealth and resources into Georgia, a traditionally reddish authorities that Democrats enactment successful play conscionable 4 years ago.

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Both Trump and Harris devoted important clip and vigor to Georgia. (Getty Images)

The authorities broke records successful pre-Election Day voting arsenic millions of Georgians went to the polls during the aboriginal in-person play from Oct. 15 done Nov. 1.

The weeks starring up to the predetermination were besides marked by a barrage of litigation connected some sides. In particular, some Republicans and Democrats sued implicit a slate of caller rules passed by the Georgia State Elections Board (SEB) successful precocious September, which elections officials called unworkable this adjacent to the decorativeness line.

Republican Party officials, peculiarly those aligned with Trump, argued the caller rules were added safeguards to guarantee Georgians had assurance successful their elections.

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The Peach State smashed aboriginal voting records this year. (Megan Varner/Washington Post)

The six rules included requirements for each machine-tabulated ballots to person a manus number by region officials to guarantee the totals matched, and a proviso that lone ballots deposited successful driblet boxes with video surveillance would beryllium counted.

A Fulton County justice ruled them "illegal, unconstitutional, and void," and the Georgia Supreme Court subsequently rejected Republicans’ petition for an expedited entreaty earlier Election Day.

But adjacent earlier the caller contested measures, Republican elections officials successful Georgia moved to tighten ballot information aft the contention surrounding 2020.

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That includes limiting the fig of absentee ballot driblet boxes — which were not disposable earlier 2020, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution — and banning the disbursement of nutrient and portion to radical successful enactment waiting to vote.

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Democrats accused Republicans of trying to trim elector entree successful the captious plaything state, portion GOP officials argued the measures enhanced elector confidence.

It's not improbable that the results volition look calls for a recount oregon adjacent lawsuits from the left.

He adds sixteen electoral votes connected the roadworthy to 270.

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