How far the state’s election interference case gets remains to be seen, but the president-elect almost certainly will not face trial during his term.
Republicans kept Rep. Jan Jones of Milton as House Speaker Pro Tem and Rep. Chuck Efstration of Dacula as majority leader. Rep. James Burchett of Waycross will remain whip, while Rep. Houston Gaines of Athens will remain vice chair and Rep. Bruce Williamson III of Monroe will remain caucus chair.
Take a closer look at how each county voted in this year’s presidential election, and how Georgia’s partisan margins are changing.
Trump’s former White House chief of staff sought to move his state charges in the 2020 election-related case to federal court.
CNN and NBC News have projected Trump will win the state. Now that Georgia has gone to Trump, Harris cannot win the presidential election without winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. At the time networks called Georgia for Trump, Harris was behind in all three states.
The Supreme Court rejected former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' appeal to move his 2020 election interference case in Georgia to federal court. MSNBC's Lisa Rubin breaks down what could happen next to Meadows.
View live results of the Georgia presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
The Supreme Court has rejected a request from former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his Georgia election interference case from state court into federal court.
Georgia is a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with 16 electoral votes at stake.
Late Tuesday night, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, R, said at a press conference that "Donald Trump has an insurmountable lead with the number of votes outstanding." "It looks like this is pretty much done," he said. "I think the results are pretty well baked in."
Georgia Senate Democrats have elected Sen. Harold Jones II to lead their caucus. He promised Friday to be aggressive in pushing policy goals despite Republicans holding a substantial majority in the chamber.