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Joe Biden wins Georgia ahead of Donald Trump after recount, flipping the state for Democrats at the US election
Joe Biden has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, an extraordinary victory for Democrats who pushed to expand their electoral map through the Sun Belt.
The win by Mr Biden pads his electoral college margin of victory over President Donald Trump.
Mr Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election on November 7 after flipping Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to the Democrats’ column.
Mr Biden now has 306 electoral votes to Mr Trump’s 232.
Mr Trump won Georgia by 5 percentage points in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In 2020, Democrats had focused heavily on the state, seeing it in play two years after Democrat Stacey Abrams narrowly lost the…
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