Joe Biden is the projected winner of Georgia’s 16 electoral votes, bringing an end to the 2020 presidential election.
The former vice president has flipped a state Republicans have won in presidential elections since 1996.
Georgia is now conducting a statewide hand recount of presidential votes, but Biden’s current lead of 14,152 votes in Georgia is expected to withstand any recount changes.
That brings Biden’s electoral vote count to 306, with 232 for Donald Trump.
In JimHeath.TV’s final election forecast, we predicted Biden would end up with 306 electoral votes.
From election eve:
Our own JimHeath.TV estimate has Biden winning with 306 electoral votes, way above the 270 he needs.
It’s nice to have made an accurate forecast of the race.
Meanwhile, a Michigan judge today rejected a GOP demand to delay certification of the vote count in Detroit.
This is the latest in a string of defeats for President Trump and his allies, who have sought to un-do – or at least delay – Biden’s electoral victory with long-shot lawsuits claiming election irregularities.
Attorneys for the Trump campaign said today they’re no longer seeking a court’s intervention into the presidential race in Arizona.
Trump supporters in Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit to stop the certification process in the state but did not provide any evidence of election fraud.
Instead, they told the judge that they intend to present evidence to support that claim once they have obtained it.
Biden transition officials continued to raise concerns that the Trump administration has yet to allow government officials to work with the president-elect’s team, which could hamper the new administration’s ability to learn about coronavirus vaccine plans or global threats to the United States.
While the Biden transition still does not envision a lawsuit anytime soon, they are raising alarms that the president-elect is unable to get national security briefings because the administrator at the General Services Administration has yet to accept the election results.
“We’re not interested in having a food fight with the GSA administrator or anyone, really,” Jen Psaki, a transition adviser, said on a call with reporters. “We just want to get access to intelligence information, to threat assessments, to the ongoing work on covid, so that we can prepare to govern.”