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

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.

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.

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 ...

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In February, Gonzalez removed herself from the case and appointed a special prosecutor, after criticism from Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp over failing to secure a single guilty verdict the entire time she had been in office. “We will not allow this or any case to be used for political gain,” Gonzalez said at the time.

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

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.