Just after 2 a.m. after Election Day, Donald Trump told supporters in the White House, “We want all voting to stop.” This blatantly anti-democratic request is Trump’s last desperate attempt to salvage a win for his administration given the margins closing in on him in key states.
Joe Biden is now leading in Georgia by just 2,000 votes. And the votes are still being counted there, particularly in heavily Democratic areas outside of Atlanta.
We have Stacey Abrams to thank for this incredibly tight race.
Abrams has made Georgia a competitive state for YEARS to come. Since her historic run for governor in 2018 -- she lost by just 1.4% -- Abrams has spearheaded the effort to protect the vote and to re-enfranchise tens of thousands of voters, many of them voters of color, who had been excluded from the electoral process by Republican leadership in Georgia.
The result? Joe Biden CAN win Georgia’s 16 electoral votes if all the votes are counted.
But we know Donald Trump, whose margin is shrinking even further this very minute, will try anything to stop the counting of the vote in this key state.
There’s so much work to be done to ensure that EVERY vote is counted in Georgia and nationwide. But before the vote is finally tallied, we need to know:
