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Sen. David Perdue gives a thumbs up as he arrives at a campaign event in Savannah, Ga., December 4, 2020.
(Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters)
A look under the hood at the back-to-back Georgia elections, including Perdue’s vote advantage over Trump.
Georgia’s slip to the Democrats in both the presidential and Senate races for the first time in a generation was a whole-state effort.
The fact that Donald Trump lost the state and both David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler lost their races is not just about what voters in Atlanta or its inner suburbs did. The results followed patterns, and by stepping back to take in the rest of the state, we can get a fuller grasp of how Republicans fell short in November and again in January.