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Follower of Joe Biden in Atlanta, Georgia
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Joe Biden is apparently one step closer to winning the US presidential election.
The Democratic candidate is now ahead of Donald Trump, who had long been in the lead in the swing state, in the Georgia state count.
There are still more votes to be counted in both more democratic and more republican areas of the state.
Then there are the election papers of military personnel stationed outside the United States.
Biden is therefore not yet sure of a win in Georgia.
Peach State has 16 electorates.
For both candidates, victory or defeat still have different consequences: Should Trump lose Georgia, he would no longer have a chance to win the majority of the 270 electorate.
However, Biden would still have a chance of winning the majority, even if he didn't win Georgie in the end: He is currently still 17 voters short.
Whether Biden is certain of the overall victory with a win in Georgia therefore still depends on the development in Arizona.
There are 11 voters in the state.
Biden is currently in the lead there too, but his lead is getting smaller and smaller.
Georgia long went to the Republicans
Since Bill Clinton, no Democrat had been able to prevail over a Republican in the running for the presidency in the southeastern state.
In 2016, Trump won the 16 electorate in Georgia with a good five percentage points ahead of Hillary Clinton.
In the 2018 mid-term elections, Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp narrowly prevailed over Democrat Stacey Abrams.
But the demographics in the US state are changing increasingly.
Just under a third of the population in Georgia are African-Americans, more than in almost any other state.
As more and more young, diverse people move to the capital Atlanta and its suburbs, old, conservative voters are dying out.
This was already evident in the 2018 mid-term election, when the majority of voters in the metropolitan region voted for the Democrat Abrams.
Abrams, who became the first African American woman to run for governorship, also began registering more and more voters after her defeat.
Democrats assume that she has thus contributed to Biden's good values this year.
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