Former President Donald Trump captured the first swing state on election night, with The Associated Press projecting he would win North Carolina. In the early hours of Wednesday, the AP called another tight race for him in Georgia.
The GOP nominee had led narrowly in the Tar Heel State most of the 2024 cycle, though one late-race survey gave Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, a slim lead. Trump won North Carolina in both 2016 and 2020, but both President Joe Biden, before he dropped out of the race in late July, and Harris spent ample time and money there trying to flip the state.
Biden narrowly won Georgia in 2020, the first time for a Democrat in more than two decades, but the fast-growing state flipped back to Trump, who won it in 2016.
