{"id":34995,"date":"2020-11-06T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34995"},"modified":"2020-11-06T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:29:02","slug":"recount-in-georgia-due-to-small-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34995","title":{"rendered":"Recount in Georgia due to small margin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u2018With a margin that small, there will be a recount\u2019 in Georgia, local Secretary of State announces, as presidential race tightens<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has said that his state will hold a recount. That\u2019s after Joe Biden took a late lead over Donald Trump there.<\/p>\n<p><em data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u201cAs we are closing in on a final count, we can begin to look to our next steps,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Raffensperger told reporters on Friday.<em data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u00a0\u201cWith a margin that small, there will be a recount in Georgia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1324737811241705473&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F505899-georgia-recount-small-margin%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1324737811241705473\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joe Biden pulled ahead of Donald Trump in Georgia by just over 1,000 votes on Friday morning, with more than 99 percent of ballots accounted for. Georgia law allows for a recount if the difference between both candidates is within half a percentage point.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/505899-georgia-recount-small-margin\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/505899-georgia-recount-small-margin\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018With a margin that small, there will be a recount\u2019 in Georgia, local Secretary of State announces, as presidential race tightens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}