Live Coverage: Georgia Senate runoff elections
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Tuesday brings the 2020 election cycle to a close with twin U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will decide which party controls the chamber. In addition, there’s a runoff for a seat on Georgia’s five-member Public Service Commission. Note that due to the high volume of mail-in votes, we may not know the final outcome of these races tonight.
Resources: Results • County Benchmarks
We are now approaching 70-75% of the total vote counted, as we close in on three million votes tallied. At present, both Republican incumbents (Loeffler and Perdue) have moved into fractional leads. But the concern for them is that a significant amount of metro Atlanta has yet to be counted, and the GOP leads are very, very small. It is not a crazy estimate to assume that nearly 600,000 votes are still to come just from Cobb, Gwinnett, and DeKalb Counties.