The News out of the Georgia Senate Runoff Isn't Good
By Bonchie | 10:30 AM on December 02, 2022
We are starting to get our first non-poll indications of how the Georgia Senate runoff is going, and it’s not good news for Republicans. According to the state, a new record for early voting has been set, which typically means outsized Democrat turnout.
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1598478824529952768The race between Republican nominee Herschel Walker, and Senator Raphael Warnock is breaking grounds on single-day voting records. More than a million votes have already been cast in the Georgia senate runoff as Walker and Warnock continue to make their final pitches to swing voters to get-out-the-early-vote until it ends on Friday.
Unfortunately, this is exactly what I expected to happen, not because I’m all that smart, but because it was very predictable that Republican enthusiasm would be crushed the moment this race no longer decided the balance of power. Due to a range of issues, from candidate quality to voter mobilization strategies, Democrats retained the Senate weeks ago, meaning that the race between Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Raphael Warnock holds far lower stakes than it did.
The outcome still matters, though. The difference between a 50/50 US Senate and a 51/49 one is the difference between Democrats controlling the committees and them being evenly split. In an evenly split environment, Republicans retain some control over things like judicial nominations. How much that means in practice when Lindsey Graham keeps rubber-stamping Biden appointees is debatable, but it’s important in the overall scheme of things, nonetheless.
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