Even if Trump had lost the presidential election, he wouldn’t have been headed for a criminal trial in Fulton County anytime soon.

Certain voters in Georgia’s third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late will have their votes counted as long as their ballots were postmarked by Election Day and are received by Friday.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Donald Trump announced on Saturday that his inaugural committee will be chaired by Florida real estate investor Steven Witkoff and former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who he called “longtime friends and supporters.”

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.

Georgia state Senate Republicans will stick with their same leadership team. Majority Senate Republicans gathered behind closed doors Thursday and chose Sen.

Georgia is considered a key battleground this year in the presidential election, after it went blue for the first time in decades in 2020. The winner in the state will net its 16 electoral votes. Polls are now closed in the swing state.

Georgia’s Republican leadership is looking forward to working with the incoming presidential administration, saying they expect President-elect Donald Trump to get America “back on track.”

The result in Georgia was less of a knife-edge than had been predicted – the reasons for this are embedded in the state’s difficult history.

Former President Trump has won the state of Georgia, Decision Desk HQ projects, flipping the crucial battleground back into his column after narrowly losing the state four years ago. Georgia was

This year, thanks to newly-passed election bill S.B. 189, election officials say the results will be available much sooner than they were in 2020.

He also said Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump at the top of the ticket shows Georgia is still a “very purple state.” “For a Black woman to be able to come to Georgia and only lose by only 117,000 votes tells you quite a bit,” he ...