Donald Trump announced on Saturday that his inaugural committee will be chaired by Florida real estate investor Steven Witkoff and former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler

Georgia is a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with 16 electoral votes at stake.

CNN and NBC News have projected Trump will win the state. Now that Georgia has gone to Trump, Harris cannot win the presidential election without winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. At the time networks called Georgia for Trump, Harris was behind in all three states.

Georgia state Senate Republicans will stick with their same leadership team. Majority Senate Republicans gathered behind closed doors Thursday and chose Sen.

Certain voters in Georgia’s third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late will have their votes counted as long as their ballots were postmarked by Election Day and are received by Friday.

View live results of the Georgia presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

Fox News called Pennsylvania for Trump just before 1:30 a.m. ET, snatching the presidency from Harris. Although that still puts him three electoral votes short of 270, Harris cannot win without the Keystone State. He will also likely win Alaska by a landslide, delivering him exactly three electoral votes to get him to 270.

Late Tuesday night, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, R, said at a press conference that "Donald Trump has an insurmountable lead with the number of votes outstanding." "It looks like this is pretty much done," he said. "I think the results are pretty well baked in."

With the victory, Trump nets 16 electoral votes in the state that was the focal point in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

His victory in the state reaffirmed many conservatives’ beliefs that the Peach State is fundamentally red, despite Democrats’ inroads in recent election cycles.

The result in Georgia was less of a knife-edge than had been predicted – the reasons for this are embedded in the state’s difficult history.

He also said Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump at the top of the ticket shows Georgia is still a “very purple state.” “For a Black woman to be able to come to Georgia and only lose by only 117,000 votes tells you quite a bit,” he ...