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
Wednesday, Jan 6, 2021 · 4:40:59 AM +00:00
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Steve Singiser
How this for tension? With 4.3 million votes counted, the margin between David Perdue (R) and Jon Ossoff (D) lies at…384 votes.
This is awful news for Perdue, because his last tranche of votes (Coffee County in southern Georgia) has already dropped. He has nothing left. Ossoff, meanwhile, can expect to see 20,000 to 30,000 more votes in DeKalb County, another 12,000 votes in Newton County, and certainly some more out of Cobb and Fulton.
The Democrats are tantalizingly close to reclaiming the U.S. Senate.
Wednesday, Jan 6, 2021 · 4:43:52 AM +00:00
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Steve Singiser
Slight correction to the previous update: what tightened the race from about 5000 votes down to less than 400 was the block of votes out of Newton County.
Still, Ossoff can count on Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and also probably some outstanding votes in other blue counties that haven’t entirely reported. You would much rather be Ossoff than Perdue at this point.