(CNN) -
Joe Biden will win Georgia and Donald Trump will win North Carolina, according to a CNN projection.
Biden's victory adds 16 electoral votes to his tally, bringing him to 306, equaling President Donald Trump's 2016 total. With CNN's projection that Trump will win North Carolina, the final tally is 306-232.
In Georgia, Trump had reached an early lead in the count, but Biden got ahead as votes from Atlanta and its suburbs were counted.
The historic success of the Democratic nomination has been fueled by a grassroots rebirth that brought together a rapidly diversifying electorate and suburbs that both grow and become increasingly inhospitable to Republican candidates.
Georgia Republicans have compounded the problem, as state lawmakers have so far refused to expand Medicaid under Obamacare and Governor Brian Kemp, in 2019, signed a so-called "heartbeat bill," one of the US laws. most restrictive abortion in the country.
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