Trump and his supporters, when they're not lobbing accusations of election fraud, will argue that the Republican losses are because the party's leadership in the state, from Governor Kemp on down, was insufficiently loyal to the president. Trump's critics within the party - and their numbers will grow - will hold the president responsible for squandering a probable victory by attacking Georgia Republicans and depressing conservative turnout with his unsubstantiated claims of voting illegalities.
One thing is certain, however. As was the case in the congressional mid-term elections, Republicans are finding it difficult to win elections without Donald Trump on the ballot. Their coalition - when it doesn't have the white working-class and rural turnout boost the outgoing president elicits - is underpowered. That is a serious problem for Republicans to address, given the fact that Trump's name may never appear on a ballot again.
It had been 28 years since a Democratic presidential candidate carried Georgia. It had been 20 years since a Democrat won a Senate seat in Georgia, and 14 years since they won any kind of state-wide race. Republicans had never lost a modern run-off election in Georgia.
That has now changed - a remarkable development in the fast-growing business heart of the American South. On Tuesday the election analysis website fivethirtyeight. With the recent Senate results, Georgia seems more likely as the former. And if that's the case, it - along with Arizona, which Biden also carried and which now has two Democratic senators - changes the layout of the US political map.
Winning a Democratic majority in the Senate or the presidency through the electoral college becomes easier for the party. The old "blue wall" of Democratic states in the Midwest becomes less essential. It won't be long before Democrats are tested in the state, however. Warnock, who is finishing the term of retired Senator Johnny Isakson, will have to run for re-election in just two years.
Then there's a potential rematch between Republican Governor Brian Kemp - who has become a recent target for Trump's ire - and Stacey Abrams. More than , people who did not vote in November were early voters this time around for the Senate runoff races. More: Lawyers: Trump's call could be criminal on state, federal level.
Polls are open in Georgia from 7 a. Absentee ballots must be returned by 7 p. Will Peebles is the enterprise reporter for Savannah Morning News.
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Trump won all five again in , making them Retained Pivot Counties. We call such counties Reverse-Pivot Counties. These three counties in Georgia represent half of the six Reverse-Pivot Counties nationwide. Below, we focus on differences in the number of votes between November and January in each county. The middle two columns show vote totals from the runoff election. The differences between runoff votes and general election votes are in parentheses. For example, Ossoff received votes in Baker County in the runoff.
That was 18 fewer votes than he received in the county in November. The column on the right shows the difference between votes lost per county. Colors show which party lost fewer votes. For example, in Baker County, Ossoff lost 46 fewer votes than Perdue.
Obama's average margin of victory across Georgia's Retained Pivot Counties in was 5. In , Trump's average margin of victory was 8. The five counties favored Republican Senate candidates in and Isakson's R average margin of victory in these counties in was In , the counties favored Perdue by an average margin of 9. In the special election—which had 20 candidates, including six Republicans and eight Democrats—the counties favored Republicans by an average 8. Since , the presidential margins of victory in Georgia's three Reverse-Pivot Counties have swung In , they voted for the Republican candidate, McCain, by an average margin of 9.
In , they supported the Democratic candidate, Biden, by an average margin of Isakson's R re-election bid in by an average margin of 5. The counties then backed Democrats in the Nov.
The following candidates ran in the special general election for U. Senate Georgia on November 3, Source 1 Source 2. Watch the Candidate Conversation for this race! The Cook Political Report compared Senate candidates' performance to presidential candidates' performance in the Nov. Perdue finished first over Democrat Jon Ossoff by about 2 points 88, votes , narrowly outpacing Trump by votes, while Ossoff underperformed Biden by 99, votes.
In the special election that had 20 candidates on one ballot, the comparisons are a bit harder to make. But if you add up all the Republican candidate votes versus all the Democratic candidate votes, all GOP totals narrowly edged out Democratic ones by about 1 point, or 47, votes. The analysis also offers a county-by-county breakdown of results for presidential and Senate candidates.
Click here to read it. Georgia held runoff elections for U. Senate in and —both presidential election years. Both years also had runoffs for the statewide office of Public Service Commissioner.
The table below shows vote margins in concurrent general elections and runoffs for the two offices, along with percentage changes in turnout and changes in vote margins between the two elections.
Data for and elections come from FiveThirtyEight , and official results for and come from the Georgia Secretary of State office. Runoffs for public service commissioner that did not occur alongside a U.
Senate runoff are not included. Georgia was the only state with elections for both of its U. Senate seats in It was the 56th time a state held concurrent elections for its Senate seats since , when the 17th Amendment established the popular election of U.
Note: We didn't include Mississippi's Senate elections in the counts above, as the special election proceeded to a runoff and was not decided on the same day as the regular election.
Republicans retained both seats in those elections. Eric Ostermeier for more information. Democrats won most state legislative elections and top statewide elections in Georgia throughout the s :. Republicans won most state legislative elections and top statewide elections in Georgia throughout the s :. The competitive Senate races of were two of a few examples demonstrating that, at least at the statewide level, Georgia elections had become competitive between the two parties.
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Mitch McConnell about everything from floor procedures to committee seats. Democrats would still need to win 50 votes for any major institutional rule changes or big spending packages, and they'd need buy-in from potential rogue Democrats like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. Outlying Republicans such as Mitt Romney, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski could also hold leverage over their own party on narrow votes. But that's only if they could get the votes of all 50 Senate Democrats, including moderates like Manchin and Sinema.
The Biden-Harris team hasn't taken an explicit position on the abolishing the filibuster and Biden — a year veteran of the chamber — has voiced his support for keeping it. Saxby Chambliss R-Ga. Perdue said he expects the election to be about base turnout. David Perdue. Senate Assumed office: Biography: Perdue graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in industrial engineering in and obtained his master's degree in operations research from the same school in Jon Ossoff.
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