Biden Takes Lead in Georgia
Joe Biden has surpassed President Donald Trump in Georgia, a state where no Democratic presidential hopeful has won since 1992.
With the race for the White House hanging in the balance, Joe Biden pulled slightly ahead of President Donald Trump in Georgia early Friday as election workers tallied some of the last remaining absentee ballots.
More than 10,000 absentee votes still needed to be tallied, along with military, overseas and provisional ballots. But Democrats exuded confidence, in part because one of the largest troves of outstanding ballots was from left-leaning Gwinnett County.
“I think it’s really close,” Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs said, “and it could be as close as 1,000 votes.”
Democrats celebrated Biden’s climb in the polls as a crowning achievement of a decade-long push to make the party competitive in Georgia again. John Legend belted out “Georgia On My Mind” and jubilant Georgians who stayed up overnight to watch the tallies gushed on social media.
Georgia on my mind pic.twitter.com/QKvOjA2LL0
— John Legend (@johnlegend) November 6, 2020
If there is a single person who deserves the credit for Georgia’s potential move to blue, Democrats believe it is Stacey Abrams.
As social media lauded the work Abrams has done, she shared the credit with others, especially the late Rep. John Lewis, whose home county in the 5th congressional district put Biden ahead in the tally early Friday.
Abrams used her years in elected office to create a vast infrastructure to find, register, and turn out Democratic voters in the state, especially those in minority communities who had long been overlooked by Democratic party leaders.
First through the New Georgia Project and later through Fair Fight and Fair Fight Action, Abrams elevated voter turnout, and more specifically voter suppression, as a top priority for Democratic leaders and activists across the country.
