Hours before the in-person voting begins for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate races, the contests that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate are universally considered too close to call.
According to the “Insider Advantage/Fox 5 (Atlanta)” poll completed Sunday night, Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democrat challenger John Ossoff are deadlocked with 49% of the vote each and 2% undecided.
In the race to fill out the remaining two years of the term of former Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson, “Insider Advantage” showed appointed GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Raphael Warnock, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, also tied with 49% each.
“No predictions,” former Rep. John Linder, R.-GA, past chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told Newsmax. “I think it’s 50-50.”
A Democrat defeat of one of the Republican senators will reduce the GOP majority in the Senate from 52 to 51 seats. Defeat of both will make the Senate a 50-to-50 tie, giving Kamala Harris as vice president the tie-breaking vote and, with it, Democrat rule of the Senate.
Matt Towery, former Georgia state legislator and GOP political consultant, concluded that “The two Republicans go into the vote as underdogs. The African American early vote is up by 3 points versus that in November. That makes it a more difficult hill to climb.”
But Towery would make no firm predictions,
“If the two Republicans survive,” he told us, “it will be due to the Trump rally [Monday night] and a large evangelical Election Day turnout.”
John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.
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