Both U.S. Senate races from Georgia are headed to Jan. 5 runoffs, and those campaigns are already getting underway.
On Wednesday the Cobb County Republican Party will be holding a “Save Our Majority” rally in support of GOP senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
They will both be in attendance at the Cobb Republican headquarters (799 Roswell St.), and special guest is Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
The rally begins at 10 a.m. and you can register to attend by clicking here.
Republicans are holding to a tight lead in control of the Senate after last Tuesday’s elections. After just missing winning without a runoff last week, Perdue is facing Democrat Jon Ossoff.
Loeffler will be facing Democrat Raphael Warnock, who got the most votes in Tuesday’s “jungle” primary.
Cobb figures to be a battleground, especially after Ossoff and Warnock got more votes in the county that their Republican foes.
Ossoff got 54 percent of the Cobb vote, while Warnock got 37 percent of the vote compared to 25 percent for Loeffler.
She was quickly endorsed by Congressman Doug Collins, a Republican who finished third in the jungle primary.
(Democratic president-elect Joe Biden also won the county with 56 percent of the vote, although the presidential voting in Georgia appears headed for a recount. Biden has a roughly 10,000-vote lead after final votes were being counted over the weekend).
Loeffler and Perdue have demanded that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger resign over the handling of the presidential vote.
On Monday they issued a statement accusing him of mismanagement and lack of transparency and said Georgia’s election system was an embarrassment.
They didn’t specify what those failures were. Raffensperger is a pro-Trump Republican who was a state legislator and member of the Johns Creek City Council.
He said he won’t be resigning and that he’ll continue to make sure that all legal votes are counted, and illegal votes aren’t.
He said that if was any illegal voting it “is unlikely” it would rise to the numbers to change the outcome in Georgia.
“As a Republican, I am concerned about Republicans keeping the U.S. Senate,” Raffensperger said in a statement. “I recommend that Senators Loeffler and Perdue start focusing on that.”
The Trump campaign has been alleging fraud in states were the vote has been close, including Pennsylvania, which was called for Biden by news outlets on Saturday. Biden gave a victory speech on Saturday but Trump has not conceded.
There will be a Dec. 7 deadline to register to vote for the Georgia Senate runoffs, and anyone who wants to get a mail-in absentee ballot can request one starting Nov. 18.
The runoffs will have early voting starting Dec. 14; more details in Cobb are forthcoming.
The Cobb Board of Elections and Registration will be certifying election results on Friday.
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