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Turnout Hits Historic Highs in Contentious Georgia Senate Races
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January 5, 2021
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2:48Now PlayingGeorgia voters are turning out in record numbers to cast ballots in two runoff elections that will determine which party controls the Senate for the next two years. Three million Georgians have voted ahead of the election on Jan. 5, more votes than have ever been cast in a Georgia runoff race.
Democrats are hoping voter enthusiasm can propel them to their first Senate victory in the state in 20 years, but candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock need to make up ground if they’re to match President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in November, when he beat President Donald Trump in the state by a narrow 12,000 votes out of almost 5 million cast. That could be a tall task, as the Democrats in both Senate contests in November received fewer votes than Republicans. Democrats will remain the minority party in the Senate unless they win both runoff races.
The Republican incumbents, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, have their own question marks. They’ll need to prove that they can turn out Republican voters in high numbers without Trump’s name on the ballot, and in spite of unsubstantiated claims by Trump and others of voting improprieties in November. While turnout so far has been high for a runoff election, it’s still far below the 4 million ballots cast early in the general election, and accounts for just 60% of all the ballots cast in November.
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