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This makes race in georgia the runoff that's coming up in early december a little less important to democrats although if they have that then they have 51/49 that's important internally because democrats then have higher ratios on committees right now it is pretty much even steven. there's a power sharing agreement with the republicans. as this means that mitch mcconnell won't have much power at all, in fact, one wound percent there are any crimination towards mitch mcconnell not able to get control of the senate. however, one person who is intending to challenge him rick scott, the republican...

In georgia. i want to bring in now ron brownstein, cnn senior political analyst and senior editor at the atlantic. so good to see you, ron. we now know that democrats will hold the majority in the senate, regardless of what happens in the georgia run-off, so how important is that race, especially when you consider how it might impact committee assignments? >> oh, yeah. 51/49 senate is much easier to manage. you don't have issues with discharge petitions on judicial nominations. there's a lot of practical advantages. also, democrats are facing a tougher senate map in '24 than they did this year...

This makes race in georgia the runoff that's coming up in early december a little less important to democrats although if they have that then they have 51/49 that's important internally because democrats then have higher ratios on committees right now it is pretty much even steven. there's a power sharing agreement with the republicans. as this means that mitch mcconnell won't have much power at all, in fact, one wound percent there are any crimination towards mitch mcconnell not able to get control of the senate. however, one person who is intending to challenge him rick scott, the republican...

Trump carried by 20 points, you do not want to be roughly splitting the vote. 52 -- it's 51/49 -- i rounded up the numbers here because of the smaller percentages. you see here in the raw numbers, that's more votes. you always want more votes. but this is a county donald trump carried by 20 points. so, in this county, you want to be -- you need a much more lopsided number. same here. in this county that donald trump carried by 20 points -- this is just one vote report. this is not the county. as you see, county-wide, the republican candidate is leading. as later votes come in and you have a sm...

The chess game, the cheryl beasley race, it's one of our competitive races. if it ends up being 51/49 in favor of the republican, democrats are going to be saying we should've spent more money. >> i've already heard democrats say they should've spent more money for cheri. >> obama won it in 2008. historic african american turnout. that'll be critical for cheri beasley. at the top of the hour georgia is the big one for us. because what happens here is this in the house race. these are the ones that are in so far. 11 races coming in so far. ten republicans leading, one democrat leading. these ar...