Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden inched ahead of President Trump early Friday morning in the count to determine who gets Georgia’s 16 electoral votes.

With the latest update, Biden has now tallied 2,449,371 votes compared to the president’s 2,448,454, which put the former vice president’s lead at a razor-thin 971 votes with 99% of the votes counted.

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