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Trump and his Republican allies have mounted a series of legal challenges to ballots in six battleground states to reverse Biden’s apparently insurmountable lead, as the president falsely claims that he won the race.

On Friday, Trump’s efforts were dealt serious blows when his campaign dropped a challenge of ballots in Arizona, saw a judge refuse to delay the certification of ballots in Detroit and learned that Pennsylvania will not order a recount of ballots.

Biden is the projected victor in all three states, which have a combined 47 Electoral College votes.

Although Trump won Georgia by more than 5 percentage points in 2016, polling averages had indicated that Biden had a chance to win the Peach State going into Election Day.

Since 1972, the state has primarily backed Republican candidates, breaking only for southern Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992 and Georgia native Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980.

But growing demographic changes have contributed to Georgia’s shift into a battleground state.

Both U.S. Senate seats from Georgia are going to runoff elections in January. In those contests, incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue will face Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the other Republican, will face Raphael Warnock, a Democrat.

Those races will determine whether Republicans, who currently hold both seats, will remain the majority party in the Senate or whether the Democrats will be able to secure a 50-50 tie in the Senate.

Under a tie, Democrats will have majority control over the Senate because Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, currently a Democratic senator from California, would have a tie-breaking vote.