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Joe Biden is apparently one step closer to winning the US presidential election. The Democratic candidate is now in the state of Georgia with 917 votes ahead of Donald Trump, who had long led the way in the undecided state. This is reported by CNN, citing the count in the Clayton County constituency.
More votes have yet to be counted in the most democratic and most republican areas of the state. Then there are the electoral papers of military personnel stationed outside the United States. Therefore, Biden is still not sure of a victory in Georgia.
Peach State has 16 electorates. For both candidates, victory or defeat still has different consequences: If Trump loses Georgia, he would no longer have a chance to win the majority of 270 voters. However, Biden would still have a chance of winning the majority, even if he did not win Georgia in the end – he is currently still 17 voters short.
Whether Biden is sure of the overall win with a win in Georgia, therefore still dependent on the development in Arizona. There are 11 voters in the state. Biden is in the lead there too, but his lead is getting smaller.
Georgia long went to the Republicans
No Democrat had been able to prevail over a Republican in the southeastern state presidential race since Bill Clinton. In 2016 Trump won the 16th electorate in Georgia a good five percentage points ahead of Hillary Clinton. In the 2018 midterm elections, Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp narrowly prevailed over Democrat Stacey Abrams.
But the demographics in the US state are changing. Just under a third of Georgia’s population are African American, more than almost any other state. As more and more young and diverse people move to the capital Atlanta and its suburbs, conservative and old voters are disappearing.
This was already evident in the 2018 midterm elections, when the majority of voters in the metropolitan region voted for Democrat Abrams. Abrams, who became the first African-American woman to run for governor, also began registering more and more voters after her defeat. Democrats assume that she has thus contributed to Biden’s good values this year.
