Georgia's primary election Tuesday secured for President Joe Biden enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination but showed signs of trouble ahead for former President Donald Trump, experts said.
Trump easily secured the state with 84.3 of the vote as of 10 p.m. but he was barely above 50 percent in the Atlanta-area Fulton and DeKalb counties, according to New York Times projections.
The rest of those votes went to former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — even though she's already dropped out of the Republican presidential race. As of 10 p.m. she had secured 45 percent of the vote in Dekalb County and 39 percent in Fulton County, according to the new York Times.
"This is BIG!" wrote GOP political consultant and Lincoln Project co-founder Mike Madrid on X. "Trump's problems in the suburbs continue in Georgia."
Legal and political commentator Bradley Moss concurred.
"In a race where Haley already dropped out," he wrote. "That’s a major red flag for Trump."
Georgia, home to some of the country's fastest-growing suburbs around Atlanta, was one of the closest states in the 2020 presidential election, with Biden narrowly becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry it in 28 years.
All of this comes at a moment when Trump is trying to take full control of the Republican Party apparatus, with several of his loyalists, including his daughter-in-law, taking leadership positions at the Republican National Committee, and a majority of the party staff appearing to support using RNC money directly to pay for the former president's legal expenses.
On Tuesday, Biden won 95.3 percent of Democratic Georgia primary votes, according to the Washington Post.
Competitors Marianne Williamson won just 2.9 percent of the vote and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) claimed 1.8 percent of the state's vote, according to the Washington Post.
