Democrat Joe Biden pulled ahead of President Trump in Georgia at about 4:30 a.m. on Friday, when a tranche of votes from Clayton County shifted Biden from a small deficit to a lead of more than 1,000 votes. If Biden were to hold on to Georgia — news organizations are expected to refrain from projecting a winner for days or even weeks — he would be the first Democrat to win the state since Bill Clinton.
Georgia would not push Biden to 270 electoral votes, based on most projections, but it does set up the increasingly vanishing possibility of a 269-269 tie. The latest votes also dropped Sen. David Perdue (R) another notch below 50 percent, and Democrat Jon Ossoff up a notch, making it more likely Georgia will have two Senate runoff elections Jan. 5, 2021.
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