More than 1 million voters in Georgia have requested mail-in ballots as turnout is expected to explode in next month’s runoff Senate elections. Data …
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Georgia Runoffs: What to Know About the Fight for U.S. Senate Control
With two Senate seats pushed into runoffs, read about the high-stakes battle for the Senate, the candidates vying for votes and the Jim Crow-era roots of Georgia's election system.
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For the first time since 1992, Georgia is considered a swing state as two runoff races for Senate seats will be held simultaneously in January. The races pit two Republican incumbents, Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, against Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock. If …
America still doesn’t know which party will control the next US Senate — all due to Georgia’s peculiar election system rooted in the Jim Crow era. How that system works: In Georgia, no candidate can advance through a primary or a general election system without first earning more than 50 percent of …
The Latest on the Candidates
UPDATED Jan. 5, 2021, at 8:57 AM Latest Polls Of The Georgia Senate Runoffs Two runoff elections on Jan. 5 will determine which party controls the …
Over the course of the Georgia Senate campaign, Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) has repeatedly referred to her Democratic opponent Rev. Raphael Warnock as “radical liberal Raphael Warnock.” She repeated the phrase 13 times in a recent debate ahead of the January 5 runoff. “The Democrats want to fundamentally …
ATLANTA (AP) — The campaign of Georgia Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is disavowing a photo circulating on social media of her posing with a longtime white supremacist at a recent campaign event, with less than a month to go until the runoff elections that will determine the balance of the …
Washington CNN — More than $440 million has been spent on ads in the two runoff elections in Georgia that will determine control of the US Senate, according to Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group. Earlier this week, we fact checked some of the attack ads in the race between Republican Sen. …
Washington CNN — Georgia’s television viewers have been inundated with attack ads lambasting the four candidates in the state’s two critical Senate runoff elections. One race pits Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler against Democrat Raphael Warnock. The other pits Republican incumbent David Perdue …
Vying for Voters
Early voting for the Georgia Senate runoff elections started Monday as outside groups are converging on the state to stump for the four candidates and boost base turnout with Senate control on the line. One of the outside groups stepping into the runoffs is the Keep America America Action Fund super …
As James Brown’s funk classic Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud pulsed through the mobile sound system, Cliff Albright marched up a steep roadway, bellowing into a microphone trying to get people out of their doors. “Let’s go y’all,” he said. “Black voters matter every day, everywhere.” Albright …
US President Donald Trump has held his first rally after losing the US presidential election. The event in Georgia comes before key Senate runoff elections there in January, which will decide control of the upper house. Joe Biden is the first Democratic candidate to win the state in a presidential …
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden will travel to Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday to stump for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael …
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