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The 2024 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Georgia voters chose 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 was 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 elections, after having been a moderately red state in the late 2000s 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 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.
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.
Former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump ran 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 in late February, though he withdrew his name from the state's ballot the following July.
Trump flipped Georgia back into the Republican column, winning by 2.2%, which was only slightly greater than the national margin of victory (compared to being about 7 points to the right of the nation in 2016). This was the first time a Republican candidate would win a federal statewide race in Georgia since Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Trump also received more than 2.66 million votes which was a record for votes cast for any candidate in the history of Georgia. Trump was the first Republican to win Jefferson County since 1988.