After winning North Carolina, Donald Trump added Georgia to his kitty to reclaim the state for the Republicans. Both swing states have 16 electoral votes each. The Pennsylvania, the key battleground state with 18 electoral votes, has also gone to Trump, closing off Kamala Harris's chances of victory.
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2024
Pennsylvania is the largest swing state with 19 votes in the Electoral College while another battleground state, Michigan, has 15 votes. Other swing states are Arizona with 11 seats, followed by Wisconsin and Nevada with 10 and six votes each.
In 2020, Trump lost Georgia against President Joe Biden. He had won Georgia in 2016 as his GOP predecessors did since 1996. With the latest win, Trump has sealed Georgia's status as a red state.
The Democrats seemed to have gained in Atlanta and its outskirts but Trump roped in rural votes to his advantage. He had visited the swing state six times in 2024 alone with crowd-pulling rallies in Atlanta, Rome and Savannah.
Interestingly, Trump is facing criminal charges of conspiracy to steal the 2020 elections in Georgia but he has pleaded not guilty.
Most of the voters in the state voted early ahead of the election day since October 5.
Multiple bomb threats were reported at 12 polling centres across Georgia on Tuesday, with the authorities saying the non-credible threats from Russia briefly disrupted the polling processes.
The FBI revealed that it is aware of bomb threats to polling sites in Georgia and that many of them seem to have originated from Russian email domains.
