This year’s by-elections were very fair and dragged on over time. But now it’s about to end.
The polling stations are closed and the very last votes of the by-elections will be cast.
He is between Democrat Raphael Warnock (53) and Republican Herschel Walker (69) in the state of Georgia.
With 80% of the vote, Warnock has a narrow lead.
The first round of elections in Georgia was even and it is expected to be very even this round.
In Georgia, a runoff had to be held, because none of the candidates received more than 50% of the vote.
It will be decided who gets the last vacant seat in the Senate.
It has already been decided that the Democrats will lose their majority in the House of Representatives, but will retain control in the Senate.
The runoff will determine whether Democrats win a 51-49 majority in the Senate or 50-50 with Vice President Kamala Harris as the deciding vote.
Fighting for last place
Even if Democrats win control of the Senate anyway, the last seat is important for them to win.
If they have control of the Senate with 51 seats against 49, it means, among other things, that they will also get a majority in some committees.
For example, writes the Judiciary Committee, which oversees the US Department of Justice Cnn.
It may also be easier for Democrats to get new Supreme Court nominees.
Democrats also won’t depend so much on Democrat Joe Manchin, who has repeatedly been critical of President Joe Biden’s policies.
Manchin has also thrown a spoke in the works of many of the president’s political goals.
A victory for the Republicans could give them a headwind towards the 2024 presidential election. For Donald Trump, it will be important that the candidate he supported wins Georgia.
Scandal after scandal
Despite scandal after scandal, sports icon Herschel Walker has risen to prominence in Georgia.
Perhaps much thanks to the support of former President Donald Trump.
Naturally, he himself does not mention any of his scandals, which, by the way, is about him having children who weren’t publicly known.
She said she was against abortion, no exceptions. But ex-girlfriends accused him of paying for an abortion in 2009, which he denies.
Soon after, his son, influencer Christian Walker, took to Twitter with vicious attacks on his father.
– You are not a “family man” when you left us to sleep with a group of women, threatened to kill us and made us move six times in six months, fleeing your violence, he wrote.
