Even if Trump had lost the presidential election, he wouldn’t have been headed for a criminal trial in Fulton County anytime soon.

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.

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

Georgia is considered a key battleground this year in the presidential election, after it went blue for the first time in decades in 2020. The winner in the state will net its 16 electoral votes. Polls are now closed in the swing state.

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.

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

Georgia’s Republican leadership is looking forward to working with the incoming presidential administration, saying they expect President-elect Donald Trump to get America “back on track.”

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

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.

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