2020 United States presidential election in Georgia
The 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 U.S. elections. Georgia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The Republican Party’s nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden. Biden narrowly won Georgia by a margin of 0.26%. Georgia was seen as a key swing state in both the presidential and senatorial elections due to the rapid growth and diversification of Atlanta’s suburbs.
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The 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 U.S. elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Georgia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party’s nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden. Biden narrowly won Georgia by a margin of 0.26%. Georgia was seen as a key swing state in both the presidential and senatorial elections due to the rapid growth and diversification of Atlanta’s suburbs. This is the first presidential race in Georgia that a Democrat has won that was both a direct head-to-head race, and without a native politician as the Democratic nominee, since 1960. It was also the first time since 1860 that Laurens County and Monroe County did not vote for the statewide winner. The presidential preference primary was originally scheduled for March 24, 2020.
On March 14, it was moved to May 19 due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 9, the preferencePrimary was again rescheduled to June 9, being combined with the regular, usually-separate primary for other federal and state primaries as well as local elections in some counties. This was the firsttime in Georgia history that all primaries were combined on the same date. Incumbent President DonaldTrump ran unopposed in the Republican primary, and thus received all of Georgia’s 76 delegates to the 2020 Republican National Convention. Voters who participated in the March 24 primary were able to vote again in the June 9 primary for all other offices. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger approved sending out absentee ballot application forms to 6.9 million active voters for the combined primary, of which 1.1 million absentee ballots were requested. Unlike the Georgia primary, the state did not send out absentee ballots by mail, including voters who did not have computers nor Internet access.
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