If Biden’s win is to be meaningful in any way shape or form, the runoff elections in Georgia for the Senate is effectively the Democrats End Game.
What is a runoff election and why is it important in Georgia?
With both Senate contests in Georgia falling below a 50 per cent majority, the state is headed for two run-off elections.
In the regular election, Republican incumbent David Perdue is facing a challenge from Democrat Jon Ossoff. In the special election, GOP appointee Kelly Loeffler is defending her seat against Democrat Rev Raphael Warnock.
The state of Georgia has a majority-vote requirement, which means a candidate must secure at least 50 per cent of the vote in order to win the election. If 50 per cent of the vote is not secured, a runoff will be held.
This year, the state is unusually holding two races for senate as the seat for former Senator Johnny Isakson, who retired last year, also needs to be filled.
In one race, appointed Republican Sen Kelly Loeffler came in second behind Democrat Raphael Warnock with 26 per cent to 32.9 per cent.
Since both candidates failed to surpass a majority of 50 per cent, a runoff was determined to be necessary.
In the second race, Republican incumbent Sen David Perdue now holds just under 50 per cent of the vote in the state followed by Democratic rival Jon Ossoff with 49.8 per cent to 47.8 per cent, with 98 per cent of the vote counted.
The Senate has been deadlocked by the Republicans for so long, it has allowed nothing to pass and the democratic will of the people has been denied.
If Georgia’s January 6th runoff gives the Democrats extra seats in the Senate plus the Vice President’s one tie breaker vote, the Democrats could actually get desperately needed legislation through.
Expect the Republicans and Democrats to throw everything at Georgia, it could make the Presidential Election look tame.
All eyes are still on the mad King Trump and how he will punish America for rejecting him.
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Only need 1 of 2 seats in the most marginal state where down ticket candidates outperformed the president. Don’t expect both to flip blue.
Trump to pardon himself (yes legally he can do this) as a final fuck you.
“The Devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin’ for a soul to steal.
He was in a bind coz he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal….”
Written over 40 years ago and a neat little tune by the Charlie Daniels Band, the first few lines sum up very well what is happened in US politics over the past week.
Here’s a cover of the original, by Nickelback, with great cartoon-style visuals ->>> The sky on fire, as has been seen in the US over these last months: The Devil went down to Georgia, Nickelback cover
That 666 on the numberplate just happens to be the number of migrant children seized under the tyrant’s orders, who now cannot be re-united with their families: 666 Seized Migrant Children.
Yawn. In cages Obama built and Joe will continue to use.
While children have been mistreated at the border for more than a decade, it is Trump who massively expanded the program and its increasingly brutal treatment of children”>.
“There seems to be a level of cruel intent I’ve never seen before and a real indifference to the well-being of a child.” Grave abuse at migrant detention facilities.
On April 6, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new “zero tolerance” policy toward those crossing illegally into the U.S. from Mexico. In mere weeks, over 2,000 children were taken from their parents and held, alone, sometimes behind chain-link fences, under the cold care of the federal government. In Texas, three “tender age” centers were set up for detained toddlers and infants. Incessant wails of “Mamá” and “Papá” were heard on audio from a Customs and Border Protection detention center. A reckoning after Trump’s border separation policy
Trumps Separation of Families Constitutes Torture
If they weren’t white and rich then Trump wouldn’t care what happened to them. Those families can’t vote.
You’ll be mighty disappointed then when Joe continues to use them in a desperate attempt to hold 20-odd swing seats in the house in 2 years plus Manchin’s WV Senate seat and other toss ups in the midwest.
That’s the laughability of MSM media reporting of American politics. When the Dems do it fine. Look at the hypocrisy over legal challenges – compare what Gore did versus what Trump is doing and spot the difference. Of course Joe would have accepted losing an election of 140 million votes by less than 150k as well……
The Devil comes back to Georgia
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