The last two states to fall one the 2020 electoral map have fallen.
According to various mainstream media outlets including CNN and MSNBC, Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia and its 16 electoral votes while Donald Trump took North Carolina and its 15 electoral votes.
For Biden, winning Georgia was more or less spiking the football as the former vice president and now President-elect was projected the winner of the 2020 election last Saturday when it was projected that he would win Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes. Nonetheless, flipping Georgia is incredibly significant considering he becomes the first Democrat in 28 years to win the Peach State after Bill Clinton did it in 1992. Moreover, Biden’s win in Georgia could have a spillover effect onto the senate runoff in that state on January 5 which could determine who ultimately has power in the Senate. Currently, Democrats would need to win both races to swing the senate majority in their favor and unseat Mitch McConnell.
For Trump, the North Carolina is if anything bittersweet considering he managed to hold onto a state he carried back in 2016 but had to witness yet another state flip blue in Georgia. Furthermore, Georgia and Arizona going blue gave Biden a total of 306 electoral votes which was ironically the same number Trump received in 2016 to the President’s 232 he mounted in this cycle. That combined with Biden’s huge advantage in the popular vote (5.2 million-plus) puts further pressure on GOP house and senate members to acknowledge Biden’s win, Trump to concede, and his campaign to drop frivolous lawsuits across the country claiming unsubstantiated voter fraud.
