Tuesday brings the 2020 election cycle to a close with twin U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will decide which party controls the chamber. In addition, there’s a runoff for a seat on Georgia’s five-member Public Service Commission. Note that due to the high volume of mail-in votes, we may not know the final outcome of these races tonight.
Resources: Results • County Benchmarks
Wednesday, Jan 6, 2021 · 6:00:44 AM +00:00 · Steve Singiser
Judging by the comments threads, a few of you aren’t ready to go to bed yet, eh? Well, then, neither will we!
Here is where we stand as we come up on 1 AM on the East Coast, and a mere 10 PM here in DKE’s Western HQ in Southern California:
- Democrat Raphael Warnock has declared victory in his special election against appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler. With about 97% of the vote counted, Warnock holds a lead of 36,000 votes, which lies well outside the recount margin.
- In the runoff election that was forced in November when incumbent Sen. David Perdue (R) failed to reach 50%, Perdue holds an extremely thin 919 vote margin over Democrat Jon Ossoff. But Democrats are already cautiously optimistic (if not giddy), because the bulk of the 60,000-90,000 votes remaining are on decidedly blue turf, with the single biggest set of outstanding votes coming from DeKalb County, which thus far has given 82.5% of its votes to Jon Ossoff.
Source: Daily Kos
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