Even if Trump had lost the presidential election, he wouldn’t have been headed for a criminal trial in Fulton County anytime soon.

CNN and NBC News have projected Trump will win the state. Now that Georgia has gone to Trump, Harris cannot win the presidential election without winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. At the time networks called Georgia for Trump, Harris was behind in all three states.

Certain voters in Georgia’s third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late will have their votes counted as long as their ballots were postmarked by Election Day and are received by Friday.

View live results of the Georgia presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

Georgia state Senate Republicans will stick with their same leadership team. Majority Senate Republicans gathered behind closed doors Thursday and chose Sen.

Late Tuesday night, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, R, said at a press conference that "Donald Trump has an insurmountable lead with the number of votes outstanding." "It looks like this is pretty much done," he said. "I think the results are pretty well baked in."

Fox News called Pennsylvania for Trump just before 1:30 a.m. ET, snatching the presidency from Harris. Although that still puts him three electoral votes short of 270, Harris cannot win without the Keystone State. He will also likely win Alaska by a landslide, delivering him exactly three electoral votes to get him to 270.

Nearly 5.3 million voters turned out for Tuesday's presidential election, marking a record high for the state of Georgia previously held by 2020's November race.

Georgia’s Republican leadership is looking forward to working with the incoming presidential administration, saying they expect President-elect Donald Trump to get America “back on track.”

(Reuters) -Democrat Kamala Harris faced Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday in the U.S. presidential election, with the two candidates vying to attract support after staking positions on issues including abortion,

The result in Georgia was less of a knife-edge than had been predicted – the reasons for this are embedded in the state’s difficult history.