A Rampaging Biden Presidency? Not With a GOP Senate
Remember Paul Coverdell.
by Doug Bandow
November 7, 2020, 12:05 AM
A Democrat was elected president, ending a time of Republican dominance and activism. A counter-revolution threatened, with Democrats controlling Congress as well. Then came Georgia’s run-off for the U.S. Senate.
The year was 1992, when Paul Coverdell improbably helped redress the balance with a narrow win after George H. W. Bush lost to Bill Clinton. In the November 3 tally, Coverdell trailed incumbent Wyche Fowler, who nevertheless failed to win a majority; about 3 percent of the ballots went to Libertarian Party candidate. With the latter’s endorsement — the desire to restrain the incoming Clinton administration united otherwise disputatious parties — Coverdell was elected and presaged the GOP surge two years later in which Republicans took control of both houses of Congress.
Given the heavy Democratic lean of absentee and mail ballots now being counted, Joe Biden has an edge to win the presidency. But Democrats’ hoped-for “blue wave†that would deliver a presidential landslide and sweep over the Senate as well proved to be little more than a ripple. The GOP lost seats in Arizona and Colorado but won one in Alabama, all of which were long expected. (Whatever prompted Gov. Doug Ducey to appoint Martha McSally to follow Jon Kyl in filling John McCain’s unexpired term after her loss in the 2018 election?) Republicans lost a very close contest to flip a Democratic seat in Michigan.
All of which leaves the GOP with a 52-48 majority in the Senate. Admittedly, the game is not yet over. But the betting is that Republicans will remain in charge. For instance, North Carolina’s Thom Tillis is in the lead, though the result hasn’t yet been certified.
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