Incumbent Republicans Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are facing Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in January 5, 2020 runoffs after none of the candidates received more than 50% of the vote on november 3, 2020.
Republican Perdue received only a few thousand votes shy of the 50% threshold.
Democrat Warnock led Republican Loeffler 33% to 26%.
Republican Loeffler and fellow Republican Doug Collins, plus four other Republicans in a race with 20 candidates, received a combined 49.3% of the vote.
Democrat Warnock and the next seven Democrats received 48.4%.
Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock raised more than $100 million each in the past two months !
Politico reported that Democrat Ossoff brought in $106.8 million in two months – the best funded Senate candidate in history.
Democrat Ossoff spent $93.5 million from Oct. 15-Dec. 16 and had $17.5 million banked ahead of the closing days of his campaign against Republican Senator David Perdue.
Republican Perdue brought in $68 million during the same time frame. After spending $58 million, he had $16 million left in the bank.
Democrat Warnock brought in $103.4 million and spent $86.1 million. He had $22.8 million in the bank.
Republican Loeffler raised $64 million in the same time period. She spent $48.6 million and ended the period with $21.3 million cash in the bank, Politico reported.
The fundraising figures were from Federal Election Commission reports that were released Thursday night.
The elections board in a Georgia county rejected attempts to disqualify tens of thousands of voters before two U.S. Senate runoffs. The Cobb County Board of Elections & Registration voted to deny a full hearing to two challenges. Both challenges say the board should strike names appearing on both the voter rolls and on a national database of people who have moved.
Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams, a Democrat judge from Fulton County (includes Atlanta), dismissed a Republican Party lawsuit seeking to limit the use of voter drop boxes for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate runoff races saying the state has immunity from being sued.
The judge ruled she doesn’t have jurisdiction because of sovereign immunity that protects governments from lawsuits. Republicans said the drop boxes should be limited to the same hours as county election offices, which typically close at 5 p.m. on weekdays.
Why to Worry About The January Georgia Election
President Trump was ahead in Georgia, and other swing states, at midnight on election night. Then hundreds of thousands of votes appeared out of nowhere in Georgia, and other battleground states.
Ballots were brought out from under tables, after all poll observers were sent home for the night n the State Farm Center in Atlanta.
Absentee ballots were never compared to signatures.
Georgia’s Governor and Secretary of State are Republicans who refuse to clean up the fraud in the state. Things have not changed.
