Polls at the disputed runoff runs in the Georgia Senate ended on Tuesday night, with early vote counting giving Democratic opponents an early lead that has since disappeared.
With 80% of the votes counted at 10 pm, Republican Senator David Perdue (R-Ga.) Outscored Democratic opponent Jon Ossoff by more than 68,000 votes, 51% against 49%.
Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) Also surpassed Reverend Democrat Raphael Warnock by almost 53,000 votes, or 50.6 percent-49.4 percent.
The nation’s eyes are on the state of Peach for the two disputes that will determine which party controls the Senate and whether the new president-elect, Joe Biden, will have any control of Congress against his leftist agenda.
Ossoff, a 33-year-old investigative journalist, and Warnock, a senior pastor at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, moved forward as the vote count advanced on Tuesday night, but there are still many votes to be tabulated.
Most of the votes counted so far have been initial votes and correspondence, in which Democrats have always performed better, with the highest Republican turnout on election day.
Many of the remaining votes are from Republican Party strongholds in northern Georgia, meaning that Loeffler and Perdue can erase the gains made by Ossoff and Warnock on Tuesday night and keep the Republicans stronghold in the upper house of Congress.
The high-risk race broke several fundraising and participation records.
More than 3 million people voted early – or about 40% of registered voters in the state – while hundreds of thousands of other Georgians were expected to appear on Wednesday.
Given the huge turnout and the huge volume of ballots in the mail, which cannot be counted until the polls close at 7 pm, disputes can take days, in a repeat of the dying presidential election.
The outcome of the two disputes for the state of Peach will determine the political direction of the United States in the coming years and whether Biden will be able to promote tax increases, the New Green Deal and another ObamaCare overhaul, among other leftist initiatives.
At a rally on the eve of the election in Dalton, Georgia, President Trump begged Georgians to vote and warned that they would be at the mercy of Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who would become the majority leader under Democratic control of the Senate.
“The people of Georgia will be at the mercy of the left socialists, communists, Marxists and that is where they are going. You know we don’t like to use the word communist, ”he said.