Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has won the hotly contested battleground state of Georgia and its 16 electoral college votes, according to The Associated Press.
Trump secured 50.9 percent of the vote, while Harris took 48.4 percent, with 94 percent of votes counted, The AP said. Trump’s win in Georgia, a key swing state, narrows Harris’s potential path to victory.
Wednesday morning’s result stands in sharp contrast to what occurred in 2020, when Trump—running against then-Vice President Joe Biden—became the first Republican presidential candidate to lose the state in nearly three decades. Biden narrowly won the state by a margin of just under 12,000 votes, a victory driven in part by an 84 percent surge in Asian American voter turnout, as I reported for Foreign Policy.
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