The 2024 United States presidential election in Georgia is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate.
Georgia voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Georgia has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which it neither gained nor lost a seat. Georgia is considered to be a crucial swing state in 2024.Despite being located in the conservative Bible Belt and Deep South regions, Georgia has become competitive since the start of the 2020s and is considered a purple to slightly red state in the election, after having been a moderately red state in the late 2000s going through the 2010s.
The last Republican presidential candidate to win Georgia by double digits, and the only one to win the state more than once, was fellow Southerner George W. Bush. This leftward shift is mainly attributed to the rapid population growth that the progressive and diverse Atlanta metro, which holds much of the state’s population, has experienced in the 21st century, including an influx of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and progressive Whites. In 2020, Joe Biden very narrowly carried the state by 0.23%, making Georgia the closest state that election and making Biden the first Democrat since Southerner Bill Clinton in 1992 to win the state’s electoral votes, and the first non-Southern Democrat to do so since John F. Kennedy in 1960.
Incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden initially ran for re-election and became the party’s presumptive nominee. However, following what was widely viewed as a poor performance in the June 2024 presidential debate and amid increasing age and health concerns from within his party, he withdrew from the race on July 21 and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who launched her presidential campaign the same day. Biden’s withdrawal from the race makes him the first eligible president not to stand for re-election since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968.
Former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump is running for re-election to a second non-consecutive term after losing in 2020. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gathered the required signatures to qualify for the ballot, as he announced in late February.If Harris wins Georgia, it will be the first time since 1980, when favorite son Jimmy Carter (who endorsed Harris) was on the ballot, that the state has voted Democratic in two consecutive presidential elections. This race is considered to be a tossup due to Georgia’s nearly even political lean at the federal level (despite a slight GOP lean at the state level).
As of October 2024, the Georgia State Election Board was recommending that specific people serve as election monitors in Fulton County, despite having no authority to make this recommendation. Each county decides who monitors each election precinct.
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