With Georgia鈥檚 Special Election Moving to a January Runoff, Control of U.S. Senate Could Be Unknown for Weeks
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With no one having won more than 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday鈥檚 special election for U.S. Senate in Georgia, a runoff will take place Jan. 5. Which means control of the Senate may not be known until January.
Incumbent Kelly Loeffler, appointed last year by Gov. Brian Kemp, captured 26.5 percent of the vote in a 20-candidate field. She will move on to face Democrat聽Raphael Warnock, who won 32 percent of votes. U.S. Rep. Douglas Collins, a Republican, came in third, with 20.4 percent.
Describing herself on the stump as 鈥渕ore conservative than Attila the Hun,鈥� Loeffler spent the runup to Tuesday鈥檚 contest differentiating herself from other Trump-aligned Republicans. To beat Warnock, she must now build a coalition. 鈥淕et ready for a kinder, gentler Attila the Hun,鈥� Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz .
Loeffler, co-owner of the WNBA Atlanta Dreams, has over their support for Black Lives Matter and police reforms. In September, she introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that could penalize schools that allow transgender girls to compete in women鈥檚 athletics.
Warnock, senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, has former state lawmaker Stacey Abrams used in her unsuccessful 2018 gubernatorial bid to turn out young voters and voters of color.
School officials throughout the country are hoping Congress will pass a new stimulus bill containing billions of dollars to offset red ink caused by the added expenses of pandemic education and the pressures of the recession. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel, a Kentucky Republican just elected to a seventh term, opposes a lame-duck Senate taking up the issue.
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