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GA Runoffs Thread

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Grey_Beard said:
To think that Perdue, who won by almost 90,000 votes in November could not get to 50% and now will lose his seat by around 30,000 when this is settled later in the week. Amazing turn. The other skank, well she really did not have a chance.

What happens now with their seats? They are vacant today, right? They will seated later, but McConnell gets a week or two of still being in charge, well until he is not. Am I correct in this thinking?
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Perdue’s term expired on Sunday. Since the other seat is an unexpired term she’s still in office until Warnock is certified.

The Turtle is Majority Leader until VP Harris is sworn in.
 
Roger Wilco said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1346773590000226304
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Stokely said:
Too late, beotches. You adhered your lips to his ass for four years, you go down with the USS Trump as it circles the bowl.

Of course, the American public has the collective attention span of a gnat, something the GOP is very tuned in to.
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I am reminded of a quote from The Hunt for Red October.
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How quickly the loss of these two seats have changed the conventional wisdom formed after the General election vis-a-vis Trump and the Republican party. If Trumps 2016 win was a landslide, the results of this election are nothing but earth shattering. The Presidency, the Senate(with the VP) and the House all went Democratic
 
Paratus said:
I am reminded of a quote from The Hunt for Red October.
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Relax, in 2 years it will be another bloodbath of mid-term elections as Republicans take back that sliver majority. The status quo will still be in full effect - just like when Republicans had the majority going into 2016.
 
pete6032 said:
These two senate elections were basically a referendum on Trump. I don't know why the republicans thought this would go any differently after Trump lost Georgia in November.
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In addition to a referendum on Trump himself, there was also the question of whether the Trumpified GOP can win without Trump himself on the ballot. This *can't* give them warm fuzzies.
 
Grey_Beard said:
To think that Perdue, who won by almost 90,000 votes in November could not get to 50% and now will lose his seat by around 30,000 when this is settled later in the week. Amazing turn. The other skank, well she really did not have a chance.

What happens now with their seats? They are vacant today, right? They will seated later, but McConnell gets a week or two of still being in charge, well until he is not. Am I correct in this thinking?
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Perdue is already gone, but I believe Loeffler retains her seat until all the various certifications happen. McConnell will presumably be majority leader until the 20th when Harris becomes VP.
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
Relax, in 2 years it will be another bloodbath of mid-term elections as Republicans take back that sliver majority. The status quo will still be in full effect - just like when Republicans had the majority going into 2016.
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Can you define the 'status quo' specifically so we can judge your prediction?
 
It’s been pretty great ignoring politics for the last month and catching up to see that Trump has managed to complete this trifecta of failure. I was sure such an achievement would be impossible but I underestimated just how much of a loser Trump is. And I had really really low expectations of him.
 
Commodus said:
I imagine the GOP feels like Thanos right now. It got short-term power through Trump, but he cost the party... everything.
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I wish it cost them everything. More like it cost them two years (at most) of a weak minority in all parts of government...except the Supreme Court where they got a majority for potentially decades.

So now Democrats have to get to work quickly, before any Democratic senator has to resign (or worse), and hope the Supremes don't overrule them in the end.
 
soundforbjt said:
Someone on Fox last night said Mitch May try to turn Joe Manchin Republican to keep the Senate and has Kelly Loeffler conceded? Last night she said she wouldn’t..
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Have we really already moved on to some new panic?

What could Mitch possibly offer him that would be better than what he’s already got?
 
soundforbjt said:
Someone on Fox last night said Mitch May try to turn Joe Manchin Republican to keep the Senate and has Kelly Loeffler conceded? Last night she said she wouldn’t..
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He may try, but that's a hilariously unrealistic fever dream on the Fox person's part.

And I'm sure Loeffler will follow Dear Leader's footsteps. Both in terms of refusing to concede and in the eventual outcome.
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
Relax, in 2 years it will be another bloodbath of mid-term elections as Republicans take back that sliver majority. The status quo will still be in full effect - just like when Republicans had the majority going into 2016.
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Maybe. Maybe not. Bothsides (TM) were fired up for the November election. It remains to be seen what the enthusiasm gap is going to be two years from now.

Will Dems suffer the normal midterm down turn in support or will the GOP suffer for not having Trump on the ticket to drive up turnout and/or will there be a fracture in conservatives coming out of this election.
 
Paratus said:
Maybe. Maybe not. Bothsides (TM) were fired up for the November election. It remains to be seen what the enthusiasm gap is going to be two years from now.

Will Dems suffer the normal midterm down turn in support or will the GOP suffer for not having Trump on the ticket to drive up turnout and/or will there be a fracture in conservatives coming out of this election.
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The enthusiasm was "Anything but Trump" even if the person we are electing literally said "Nothing fundamentally will change" Oh thank goodness (holds huge wad of cash against my chest).

That enthusiasm will obviously not exist in 2 years for the midterm, and it wont exist in 4 years.

Republicans have dedication in their ranks. They don't care what puppet is up on stage unlike Democrats who entirely depend on it being a young and enthusiastic person.
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
Relax, in 2 years it will be another bloodbath of mid-term elections as Republicans take back that sliver majority. The status quo will still be in full effect - just like when Republicans had the majority going into 2016.
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I'm not so sure. Trump is going to be screeching for the next two years about how much of a failure the Republicans are, and how the <insert new party> is the way forward for Trumpers. I'm expecting Democrat reign for the next 12 years, minimum, unless Fox news can really get in front of this and absolutely carpet bomb Trump into oblivion.
 
s0me0nesmind1 said:
Relax, in 2 years it will be another bloodbath of mid-term elections as Republicans take back that sliver majority. The status quo will still be in full effect - just like when Republicans had the majority going into 2016.
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Dont don’t count your 2022 chickens before they hatch. Dems are likely to net 2 Senate seats in 2022(PA and Wisconsin). Plus you are going to have a GOP intraparty civil war. The Trumpers have already threatened to primary everyone that doesn’t support their coup. If moderate gop members get primaried and they lose to a radical Trumper those seats will likely flip Dem.

The GOP is going to be feasting on and attacking itself for the next two years. I expect to see some vicious GOP on GOP fighting today on the House and Senate floors during debate over objections to EC votes..
 
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