Senate Control Will Now Be Decided by Two Runoff Elections in Georgia

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

All the talk about Mitch McConnell savoring continued control of the Senate and laying plans to keep a Biden administration from accomplishing a damn thing may have been a tad premature. Yes, Republicans stymied Democrats hopes of flipping Senate seats in Iowa, Maine, and several other states. Democrats have only gained one net seat in the Senate and need two more to control the Senate, assuming Kamala Harris is the tiebreaker as vice-president. This is all pending late returns in North Carolina, where GOP incumbent Thom Tillis is running ahead of Donald Trump and leads Cal Cunningham by 96,000 votes, with mail ballots still trickling in; and Alaska, where another GOP incumbent, Dan Sullivan has a big lead over Al Gross (mail-ballot counting there won’t even begin until next week).

But there’s big breaking news in terms of Senate control:

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That’s right: Thanks to Georgia’s strange and unique majority-vote requirement for general election wins, Republican David Perdue will face Democrat Jon Ossoff in a January 5, 2021, runoff for the Senate seat, despite Purdue’s comfortable 100,000-plus vote lead. (Outstanding mail ballots will undoubtedly reduce that lead and put 50 percent far out of reach for Purdue.) Libertarian Shane Hazel’s 2.3 percent of the vote is the main reason neither of the major-party candidates will be able to put it away this week, this month, or indeed, this year.

A January runoff was already in the works for Georgia’s other Senate seat, where 20 candidates competed in a November 3 nonpartisan “jungle primary” special election to complete the term to which Republican Johnny Isakson (who resigned for health reasons last year) was elected in 2016. Since no one received the required majority, the top two finishers, Democrat Raphael Warnock (with 33 percent of the vote at present) and appointed Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler (26 percent) will advance to the runoff.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-control-will-now-be-decided-by-two-runoff-elections-in-georgia/ar-BB1aJcdt?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

[FM123]

1. Yes!

[LizBeth]

2. Georgia pulled thru for us. The hours in line. Thank you Georgia, and welcome to BLUE!

Lets do it! The nation of blue behind you. Save our senate.

[lagomorph777]

3. All political money in the nation will pour into these two races.

We should be part of that.

Also GOTV etc.

[BComplex]

4. I'm sorry, but I'm in NC, and there is no way in hell that Thom Tillis is beating

Cal Cunningham.

This is one of the places that I KNOW has Karl Rove's finger prints all over it. I really want an audit of the paper ballots in the State having to do with the senate race.

[TruckFump]

5. Thank gawd that POS Perdue did not make it on the Nov 3 election date.

I cannot stand that POS Perdue. If there is a run off, most definitely I will contribute to Ossoff.

[tinrobot]

6. I just sent money to Warnock. I had no idea Ossoff was that close.

Gonna send him some, too.

[treestar]

7. Use the Turtle's words

to show how these seats should go D.

[RustyWheels]

8. Just Donated

Just sent $25 to each:

- Stacey Abrams' group - www.fairfight.com
- Ossoff
- Warnock

Georgia still might go for Biden, so let's get the trifecta... President and BOTH Senators !!!

[crickets]

9. Hear, hear! Go blue, GA! nt

[zebrapa]

10. 0.4996764

According to the results posted by the NYT's, Perdue now has 0.4996764 % of the vote.

Runoff in sight.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Yeah, depends on the rounding error...

Apparently it is 50% plus 1, implying 1 vote.

[helpisontheway]

12. We might be able to get high participation in AA communities

because Pastor Warnock is on the ballot.

[dsp3000]

13. I am hoping the democratic turnout will be just as high for these two senators as it was for biden

and hopefully many of the trumpers won't care enough to show up to the ballots