Tuesday, March 12, will see another pivotal day concerning the upcoming 2024 United States presidential election members of the Republican Party will cast their votes on who should be their candidate in the race for the White House in five states and territories, same as the Democrats. The Republicans will hold their primaries in caucuses in, among other places, Hawaii; the Democrats in Northern Mariana; and both in Mississippi, Washington, and – Georgia.
The Peach State has been the point of public interest when it comes to elections for almost four years now, as former President Donald Trump insisted the results there back in 2020 were rigged. Subsequently, he tried to overturn the outcome, in addition to Georgia, in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Washington DC, and organized the notorious rally in the latter on January 6, 2021, when Capitol Hill was stormed. Nonetheless, none of the 63 cases he filed came to fruition and Joe Biden became president.
But shortly afterward, Georgia’s authorities struck back and sued Trump for his attempt to overturn the results of the election there. In February 2021, Fulton County District Attorney (DA) Fani Willis opened an investigation of Trump and his allies' actions in the Peach State and finally, in August 2023, indicted Trump and 18 other defendants for conspiracy, racketeering and other crimes concerning their effort to challenge the outcome of the 2020 polling. The former president officially surrendered and then posted a $200,000 bond as bail. He tried to have some of the charges dismissed and use presidential immunity, but was unsuccessful. His trial is expected to start on August 5.
Whether Trump and Biden will triumph in their respective primaries in Georgia seems like somewhat of a redundant question, with Trump remaining the only official candidate for the Republican nominee, and Biden facing soft competition in author and politician Marianne Williamson. What will happen next is the one to be asked. Georgia is one of the swing states and which party takes it has varied in the last 40 years. According to the official results from 2020, Biden took it by just about 12,000 votes. The support the two men will get on Tuesday just might indicate what will happen in November – if Trump will retrieve what he insists was stolen from him, or if Georgia will remain blue.
