Democrat Joe Biden flipped Georgia with a slim 13,000 vote lead, buoying the spirit of Democrats who have dubbed the state “Joe’gia” and angering President Donald Trump who continues to pursue legal challenges meant to overturn the results.
But whether Biden’s win here represents anything more than a fluke fueled by Trump-weary voters is one of the big questions left lingering after the now-certified results make Biden the first Democrat presidential candidate to win the state in three decades.
Georgia's 159 counties on Tuesday began tabulating 5 million ballots cast in the presidential race for the third time in as many weeks, undertaking a machine recount with a deadline of Dec. 2.
The Georgia State Election Board has extended two emergency rules regarding absentee-by-mail voting, permitting the use of secure absentee drop boxes and now requiring counties to process absentee ballots the week before Election Day.
Now that Georgia's election results have been formally certified, President Trump's campaign has requested a recount of the nearly 5 million ballots cast in Georgia. It will take several days to complete and almost certainly not change the outcome.
About a week after Georgia’s special election headed to a runoff, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican, and Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, both launched questionable attacks that the other candidate has disputed.
Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the "numbers don't lie" and Joe Biden narrowly won Georgia, while also announcing some legislative priorities to improve the voting system next year.
Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., privately pushed Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to give wealthy sports owners a lucrative tax break last year, according to a previously unreported letter obtained by ProPublica.
After the 2017 tax bill championed by President Donald Trump passed, Mnuchin and the Treasury had to write rules on how the legislation would work in practice.
A risk-limiting audit of the 2020 presidential race that resulted in a full hand recount of 5 million ballots confirmed county-certified results that Democrat Joe Biden won Georgia's 16 electoral votes.
A federal judge in Georgia denied a motion to block officials from certifying election results due to a lack of standing and waiting too late to file the challenge.
Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff’s production company received payments from a Hong Kong media company and Al Jazeera for the rights to air investigative pieces, but a Republican TV ad misleadingly claims Ossoff got cash from “Chinese communists and terrorist sympathizers.”
In the first TV ads of the runoff campaign that could help decide the balance of the Senate, Republican Sen. David Perdue warned his opponent would “radically change America,” while Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff accused his opponent of downplaying the coronavirus.
Thursday on Political Rewind: President-elect Joe Biden has maintained his lead over President Donald Trump in Georgia after the state’s ambitious hand recount of some 5 million ballots. But the process discovered counting errors in several counties that added more than 1,000 votes to the Trump column.
Meanwhile, even while the president and many loyalists here in Georgia and across the country continue to claim that the election was stolen, many Republicans are beginning to contemplate how their party will regroup in the aftermath of the Trump presidency.
Georgia counties are counting the final ballots as part of an unprecedented full hand recount risk-limiting audit of the presidential race. The process uncovered a handful of mistakes county elections officials should have caught otherwise, but the outcome should remain the same.
President-elect Biden is expected to reverse the rule change that paved the way for the mine. But how quickly that happens may depend on who controls the U.S. Senate.
