Nov. 6,
2020, 4:49 a.m. ET14 minutes ago
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By Glenn
Thrush
After erasing deficit, Biden now leads Trump in
Georgia.
“We win Georgia, we win everything.” Joseph R. Biden
Jr. said at a drive-in rally in Atlanta last week.
Joseph R.
Biden Jr. has pulled ahead of President Trump in Georgia, a state with 16
electoral votes that would bring him to 269, or within one electoral vote of
the presidency, if he were to win. If Mr. Biden wins Georgia and then Nevada or
Arizona — both states in which he is leading — or Pennsylvania, where the
continued counting of ballots is methodically erasing Mr. Trump’s advantage, he
will become the president-elect.
The
candidates had been locked in a virtual dead heat for much of Thursday, with
each controlling about 49.4 percent of the vote, but with Mr. Trump maintaining
a slight lead. As absentee ballots were counted early Friday, Mr. Biden pulled
ahead with 917 more votes.
Flipping
Georgia, a state last won by a Democrat in 1992, and where Mr. Trump won by
more than 200,000 votes four years ago, would represent a significant political
shift. But the state has shown signs of trending blue: When Mr. Trump defeated
Hillary Clinton in 2016, he did so by only five percentage points, a far
slimmer margin than Republicans enjoyed in previous presidential elections.
Mr. Biden’s
late surge in this year’s count — thanks to his dominance in Atlanta, Savannah
and the increasingly Democrat-friendly suburbs around both — transformed what
had seemed to be a safe Trump state in early tabulations on Tuesday into one of
the closest contests in the nation.
At a
drive-in rally in Atlanta last week, Mr. Biden said, “We win Georgia, we win
everything.”
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