Polls in the fierce contests in Georgia’s Senate closed Tuesday night, with an early vote count that gave the challenging Democrats an initial advantage that has been disappearing ever since.
With 80 percent of the vote counted at 10 p.m., Republican Party Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) Was ahead of Democratic opponent Jon Ossoff by more than 68,000 votes, from 51 percent to 49 percent.
Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) Was also ahead of Democratic Reverend Raphael Warnock by nearly 53,000 votes, or 50.6% -49.4%.
The eyes of the nation are trained at Peach State for the two races that will determine which party controls the Senate and whether incoming President-elect Joe Biden will have any control in Congress against his left-wing agenda.
Ossoff, a 33-year-old investigative journalist, and Warnock, a senior pastor at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, pushed ahead as the vote count advanced on Tuesday evening, but there are still plenty of ballots to summarize.
Most of the votes counted so far have been early and email votes in which Democrats always perform better, with higher Republican turnout on election day.
Many of the remaining votes come from GOP strongholds in northern Georgia, meaning Loeffler and Perdue can erase Ossoff and Warnock’s gains late Tuesday night and keep Republicans strong in the upper house of Congress. .
The high-stakes race destroyed multiple fundraising and participation records.
More than 3 million people voted early (or about 40 percent of registered voters in the state), while hundreds of thousands more Georgians were expected to leave on Wednesday.
Given the huge turnout and the huge volume of email votes, which cannot be counted until the polls close at 7pm, it is possible that the races will not be convened for days in a repeat of the agonizing presidential election.
The outcome of the two peach state races will determine U.S. political leadership for years to come and whether Biden will be able to overcome tax hikes, the Green New Deal and another ObamaCare renewal among other initiatives of trend to the left.
At a rally on the eve of the election in Dalton, Galicia, President Trump implored Georgians to vote and warned that they would be at the mercy of Biden, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (California), and the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer (D-). NY), who would become the majority leader under democratic control of the Senate.
“The people of Georgia will be at the mercy of left-wing socialists, communists, Marxists, and this is where it goes. You know we don’t like to use the word communist,” he said.