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You are here: Home / 2020 Campaign / It Appears Democrats Have Won Control of the Senate

It Appears Democrats Have Won Control of the Senate

January 5, 2021 at 11:46 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

As of this post, there is still no official projection in either U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia, but the New York Times’s needle is very confident that both Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff will win.

It’s not official but it’s very hard to see a path for either Republican short of a major tabulation error.

That would mean the U.S. Senate will be comprised of 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris breaking any ties.

It’s an unbelievably dramatic end to the 2020 election cycle.

I’ll be on Julie Mason Mornings on Sirius XM 124 just after 6 a.m. ET to discuss these results — and what promises to be yet another crazy day in American politics.

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

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