Joe Biden wins Georgia, flipping the state for Democrats

Joe Biden has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, an extraordinary victory for Democrats who pushed to expand ir electoral map through Sun Belt.

win by Biden ps his Electoral College margin of victory over President Donald Trump. Biden was declared winner of presidential election on v. 7 after flipping Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to Democrats’ column.

Biden w has 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232.

Trump won Georgia by 5 percent points in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

In 2020, Democrats h focused heavily on state, seeing it in play two years after Democrat Stacey Abrams narrowly lost goverr’s race. Both of Georgia’s Senate seats were on ballot this year, furr boosting state’s political profile as well as spending by outside groups seeking to influence voters. Those two races are heed to a January ruff .

Georgia hn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1992.