Turnout in Georgia Senate runoff elections surges past 2M votes

Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler conceded to Democrat Raphael Warnock late Thursday, after months of high-stakes campaigning for the Georgia Senate seat.  Loeffler said she called Warnock earlier in the day to congratulate him on his historic win.

As a Republican who began his volunteer activities in Georgia in the 1960 Richard Nixon-Henry Cabot Lodge presidential campaign (I was in high school and there was such a small Georgia GOP then that every volunteer was welcome) I think it is necessary to have the courage to face the depth and scale of Tuesday’s disaster in the two Senate runoff elections in Georgia won by Democrats.               Many Republicans will try to avoid the scale of Tuesday’s defeat, but that would be an enormous

Hollywood has spoken, and the praise is coming in for Georgia Democrats. Amidst a narrow, nail-biting Senate runoff race in Georgia, politically-active celebrities flocked to social media in droves to celebrate a major win in the state — and the triumphant win at the federal level. With Democrats Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff now the Senators-elect, stars like Alyssa Milano and Mark Ruffalo couldn’t be more overjoyed that Democrats now control the Senate.

Democrat Jon Ossoff is projected to win the Georgia Senate seat over Republican David Perdue, according to the Fox News Decision Desk.  With Ossoff's win, Democrats effectively control the legislative and executive branches -- the Senate will be split 50-50, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris casting tie-breaking votes when needed. Ossoff led Perdue by 24,859 votes -- 0.6 percent -- when the race was called, with 98 percent of precincts reporting.

does beat Perdue, that would give and Democrats equal control in the Senate. With President-elect Joe Biden and in the White House, that means Harris, the Senate president, will serve as the tiebreaker.Warnock and Ossoff supporters have been expressing their excitement on social media.

Black voters and those under age 45 helped Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock unseat Republican incumbent U.S. Sen.

Joe Biden to push through his agenda when he enters the White House on January 20.Democrat Raphael Warnock is currently projected to unseat his Republican rival Kelly Loeffler in the Senate special runoff, with 98% of the vote having been counted from Georgia’s 159 counties at the time of writing.The general election runoff between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican David Perdue is tighter, although a number of media outlets have either put Ossoff in the lead or called the race in his favour.

The two U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will determine whether Democrats or Republicans are the majority party in the chamber remained too close to call early Wednesday morning.

Eli Countryman Tyler Perry flew back to Georgia after his absentee ballot failed to arrive in the mail, he tweeted on Monday.The director, writer, producer and actor sent out a tweet on Monday asking if others also had problems receiving their absentee ballots for Georgia’s runoff Senate vote.

“Y’all get out and vote, get out and vote, get out and vote,” said Tyler Perry today as Georgia went to the polls to decide exactly who the Peach State’s two Senators will be.

As Georgians choose their two U.S. Senators in the January 5th runoff elections, the stakes could not be greater.  If Democratic challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff defeat incumbent Republican Sens.

It could be déjà vu in Georgia, as the state on Tuesday holds twin Senate runoff elections that will determine if the Republicans keep their majority in the chamber or if the Democrats control both houses of Congress as well as the White House.

Tuesday morning voters in Georgia are headed to the polls for the culmination of a very long election year, casting the ballots that will decide the control of the U.S. Senate for at least the next two years.  After no candidate in either of Georgia's two U.S.

Who would you rather have write the U.S. Senate’s next budget — Lindsey Graham or Bernie Sanders? This is among the choices before Georgia’s voters on Tuesday.

In just one day, the fate of the Senate -- and the nation -- will be decided by Georgia voters. While the ballots and votes cast will determine if Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue deserve to be re-elected -- and it’s undeniably clear that they do -- the Georgia runoff elections have far greater implications.

At least 3 million people have already cast early votes in the Georgia runoff elections, in what has been a 2-month sprint that will likely determine which party gets the majority in the U.S. Senate.

The November election shattered all kinds of records. More ballots were cast than in in other election in American history and voter turnout hit its highest levels in over a century.

Georgians stood in long lines on Thursday to vote on the last day to vote early in the state's Senate runoff elections Senate runoff elections that could determine which party gets the majority in the upper chamber. Hundreds of people were lined up on the morning of New Year's Eve to vote.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and the Rev.