The final day of early vote in the second two-seat US Senate election in Georgia is fast approaching, with incumbent Republican David Perdue leading in one race and Democratic challenger Rev. Raphael Warnock is ahead of the others, according to a recent Insider Advantage / Fox 5 Atlanta poll.
The early voting period ends on Jan. 1, four days before Election Day on Jan. 5, with the results of the two races determining whether Republicans or Democrats will monitor action in the United States Senate for the next two years.
More than 1.6 million voters cast their votes in the first week of early voting, a turnout rate unusually high for second round and comparable to participation in the November general election, which saw the first victory in the state by a Democrat, Joe. Biden, in three decades.
In the Insider Advantage / Fox 5 Atlanta poll, Perdue leads Democratic opponent Jon Ossoff, a media executive who came to the fore with a small loss in a conference race in 2017, by a lean 1%, 49% – 48%. Warnock, a senior pastor at the legendary Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and an advocate of voting rights, leads the same poll, leading Republican Kelly Loeffler by a margin of 2% to 49% -47%.
The leads from both Warnock and Perdue are within the pollster’s margin of error – 4.4 percentage points – and both races, 13 days out, appear to be staying close.
Loeffler, an Illinois-born former businessman and GOP donor whose husband runs the ICE company,
who owns the New York Stock Exchange, has not yet won any elections. She was appointed to her seat by Governor Brian Kemp following the retirement of Senator Johnny Isakson, against President Donald Trump’s wishes, and took office on January 6 this year. Not long after, she stood next to Warnock and addressed his congregation in Ebenezer Baptist.
Senate layoffs in Georgia have major implications for President-elect Biden’s upcoming government. Victories in both races by the Democratic candidates would mean the Senate is split 50-50, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who has just left her seat in the chamber as a Democratic Senator from California, qualifying for casting binding votes.
All eyes are on Georgia since the general election in November left both senate seats in the game after strong results from Ossoff and Warnock. Georgia state law requires winning candidates to earn 50% of the vote.
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Both Republican and Democratic candidates have been busy running the holiday week. Loeffler met with Black supporters on Wednesday, including Kelvin and Jenelle King, owners of Osprey Management, a high-profile construction company in the Atlanta area, after receiving a letter with 100 signatures from Black pastors asking her to change the tone of her campaign against black churches. and clergy. Loeffler has repeatedly called Warnock “radical” and “socialist.”
Ossoff made a campaign stop in downtown Atlanta on Wednesday. At the meeting, Ossoff agreed with the president’s newly taken position that the $ 600 checks that would be sent to most Americans under the terms of a pandemic compromise law would be increased to $ 2,000.
Trump and Biden campaigned in Georgia on behalf of their favorite candidates in the Senate race, although Trump was criticized for voicing complaints about his election loss rather than a full endorsement of the Republican candidates when he traveled to Valdosta, Georgia.
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