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Democrats’ Senate Bid Hangs in Balance With Georgia Down to Wire Bloomberg 6/01/2021 Billy House and Mark Niquette (Bloomberg) -- Democrat Raphael Warnock edged ahead of incumbent Senator Kelly Loeffler in one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs on Tuesday, lifting the party’s hopes for retaking the chamber from the GOP even as the two races remained too close to call. Warnock declared victory even as media organizations delayed calling the close race and Loeffler refused to...

Democrats’ Senate Bid Hangs in Balance With Georgia Down to Wire Bloomberg 6/01/2021 Billy House and Mark Niquette (Bloomberg) -- Democrat Raphael Warnock edged ahead of incumbent Senator Kelly Loeffler in one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs on Tuesday, lifting the party’s hopes for retaking the chamber from the GOP even as the two races remained too close to call. Warnock declared victory even as media organizations delayed calling the close race and Loeffler refused to...

Georgia Counts Votes With Senate Control, Biden Agenda at Stake

Georgia’s runoff drama likely to drag on for days before results “Almost no chance it’s called on election night,” said Kerwin Swint, a political scientist at Kennesaw State University. Adding to the drama, just as in November, the first returns coming in on election night are likely to favor Republicans, with Democrats gaining ground as mail-in and absentee ballots are counted in subsequent days. “And then here comes the lawyers on horseback,” predicted Rick Dent, a political consu...

Georgias twin runoffs are likely to drag out results for days Billy House, Bloomberg FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., speaks at a campaign rally for himself and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., in Cumming, Gas., on Dec. 20, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Elijah Nouvelage.Show MoreShow Less 2of3Raphael Warnock, Democratic Senate candidate, left, and Jon Ossoff, Democratic Senate candidate, greet a driver while participating in a food giveaway with Hosea Helps on Christmas Ev...

Georgia’s Runoff Drama Likely to Drag On for Days Before Results Bloomberg 12/30/2020 Billy House (Bloomberg) -- The high-stakes Jan. 5 Senate runoffs in Georgia are expected to play out a lot like November’s presidential election -- with the result delayed for days, or weeks, as near-record numbers of votes are counted. In the Nov. 3 contest, the results were so close that it took 10 days before television networks projected that Democrat Joe Biden won Georgia. The state ...

Loefflers attacks show little outreach to Georgia moderates Billy House, Bloomberg FacebookTwitterEmail Supporters of Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., hold up signs during a rally with President Donald Trump in Valdosta, Ga., on Dec. 5, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Elijah Nouvelage. Sen. Kelly Loefflers campaign was designed to broaden the Republican Partys appeal to voters in Georgias increasingly Democratic suburbs -- instead the race has turned into a contest in which each side is hardening its core ...

Georgia stayed in the national spotlight this week as campaigning continues for the two U.S. Senate seats up for a runoff election Jan. 5. Ad spending In Georgia for the runoff is heading toward $500 million just since the general election in November. Most of it is Political Action Committee (PAC) money pouring into the state because the outcome of the races will determine the power balance in the Senate. “It’s outside money coming in to influence the people of Georgia and the kind of that...

Republicans outspend Democrats for Georgia runoffs Super PACs pour more into race of Kelly Loeffler, Raphael Warnock Follow Us Question of the Day     Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, speaks during a news conference following a weekly meeting with the Senate Republican caucus, Tuesday, Dec. 8. 2020 at the Capitol in Washington. Americans waiting for Republicans in Congress to acknowledge Joe Biden ... more > ...