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.
The race in Georgia has been one for the history books, and Joe Biden is on track to win it. This deep-red state will pad the Democrat’s margin of victory, something that was unthinkable in 2016.
We have Stacey Abrams to thank for this impending victory.
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 will be declared the winner of Georgia’s 16 electoral votes when all the votes are counted.
But we know Donald Trump, whose path to victory 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:
