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Emergency Support Needed!
This is a call to Arizonans to support Democrats Raphael Warnock and John Ossof for US Senate from Georgia. |
Now almost two weeks after the November 3rd election, the balance of power in the US Senate is still undetermined.
The post-election count in the US Senate is now down to 50 Republicans to 48 Democrats, with two remaining Senate seats in Georgia going to a run-off on January 5th.
Democrats will need to win both Georgia seats to bring control of the US Senate to 50-50. When votes are tied in the Senate, the Vice President, who is also President of the Senate, casts the deciding vote.
Under that scenario, Democrats would formally control the upper chamber, including the Committee chairmanships.
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Georgia was officially called for the President-Elect last Friday, with Biden carrying the Peach State 49.5% to Trump’s 49.2% — a 14,172 vote margin. |
Democratic hopes of taking both Senate seats are buoyed by the fact that Biden is the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992.
While the close count triggered an automatic manual recount of the unprecedented 5 million votes cast in the presidential contest, the tally, which concludes Wednesday, November 18th, at 11:59 pm, is not expected to change the outcome.
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If you did not previously participate, Vote Forward is a nonprofit organization that developed a program to write letters to underrepresented Democratic-leaning voters and encourage them to vote in the November 2020 election. WAVE team members wrote over 32,000 letters to swing-state voters, and it was very successful in shifting voter turnout and presumably the election results. We need more writers for the Georgia Senate runoff elections. Go to https://votefwd.org/ We had 225 writers for the November 2020 election. We need twice as many active participants for this critical election set for January 5, 2021! Our time is extremely short but can be immensely impactful for the Biden/Harris legislative agenda and the future progress of America. The Vote Forward project will look different for the January election. There are two sets of letters to adopt:
WAVE will again help with postage as necessary. Let us know as soon as possible if you will need postage and for how many letters: [email protected]. |
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The Senate Seats Both go to a runoff on Tuesday, January 5th.
David Perdue (R) 49.7% v. Jon Ossoff (D) 48.0%
Count: Perdue 2,458,731 v. Ossoff 2,372,250
With 98% reporting, Perdue leads Ossoff by roughly 86,841 votes.
Georgia’s junior Senator, David Perdue, was first elected in 2014 with 52.89% of the vote. A former businessman, and cousin of former Trump Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue (R), he served as CEO of Reebok, Dollar General, and Pillowtex.
Perdue is being challenged by investigative journalist Jon Ossoff, who first drew national attention in a high-profile, but unsuccessful, April 2017 Special Congressional Election.
Georgia Special Election
Raphael Warnock (D) 32.9% v. Kelly Loeffler (R) 25.9% v. Doug Collins (R) 19.9%
Count: Warnock 1,615,424 v. Loeffler 1,271,116 v. Collins 978,938
After Isakson’s mid-term retirement, Governor Brian Kemp (R) appointed businesswoman and co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream Kelly Loeffler as interim Senator through the November 3rd special election.
That election centered on the bitter battle between Loeffler and outspoken Congressman Doug Collins, who helped lead the fight against the President’s impeachment in the House, and who challenged Loeffler against the wishes of the Senate GOP establishment.
In the interim, Democratic candidate and Atlanta Ebenezer Baptist Church Reverend Raphael Warnock surged past the two, with a roughly 344,000 vote lead over Loeffler, who will now face him in the runoff.
All this sets the stage for what can be expected to be the most expensive Senate race in history, with both parties and outside groups already pouring in millions of dollars, and dispatching virtually thousands of field operatives to the small southern state.
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