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Best of the best (1) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: The minority leader started the year relatively quietly. He has reemerged in a big way.
McBath, a gun control activist whose son was murdered at a gas station in 2012, outraised Bourdeaux by more than $1 million and got more than $4 million in outside support, while hardly any groups spent
Trump lost Georgia by three-tenths of 1 percent, making President Joe Biden the first Democrat to carry the Peach State since Bill Clinton in 1992.
Those 13,471 votes represent 0.0084 percent of the 159,738,337 votes cast in last year’s election, or eight thousandths of 1 percent. That tiny margin eventually gave Democrats a 50-50 Senate.
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Kelly Loeffler by 2 points and Ossoff unseat Republican David Perdue by 1 point. Those closely watched races witnessed record amounts of spending and smashed runoff turnout records.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Undoing Trump’s damage Greater Georgia’s focus on election processes is a nod to a significant problem experienced by Peach State Republicans during the runoffs: Some of their
[jwp-video n=”1″] In Michigan, Republicans were convinced their nominee, John James, would overperform enough to win.
[jwp-video n=”1″] It resonates because I grew up first speaking Tamil, and later learned English in preschool. It resonates because I had my own aunt Kamala, who died a few years ago.
[jwp-video n=”1″] But senators and House members having to flee to undisclosed parts of the Capitol complex as police protected them from a rioting mob presented a drastic change of circumstance
[jwp-video n=”1″] Even Vice President Mike Pence, a loyalist from the start, defied Trump, saying he could not unilaterally reject the electors.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Lake said the problem for the GOP is more of a “consumer issue,” with Republican voters more likely to trust ballots they cast in person than those they put in the mail.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Ossoff lost that race, but it helped him tap into a network of thousands of volunteers who remained active throughout his Senate bid.
[jwp-video n=”1″] The other Senate runoff on the ballot, for a six-year term, remained uncalled.
1) Individual donors favor Democrats All four candidates’ most recent filings, covering Oct. 15 through Dec. 16, show massive influxes of cash in the final weeks before the Nov. 3 election and afterward
[jwp-video n=”1″] Loeffler appeared open to supporting the $2,000 checks, but added a caveat.
Below is a roundup of the two dozen outside groups that have each spent $1 million or more since Nov. 3.
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[jwp-video n=”1″] Perdue and Loeffler have yet to acknowledge his victory, but they have nevertheless stuck to the message that they are the last line of defense against Demcocratic majority