Emma Hurt
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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Roughly 225,000 people who voted in January runoff elections didn't vote in November. A disproportionate number of them were people of color, a sign of where Democrats' political future lies. -
Sources close to the campaigns say people in and around the White House put near-constant pressure on Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler to shape their runoff campaigns around Trump's demands. -
Even though both parties ran unified campaigns, nearly 20,000 Georgians appear to have split their votes in the two races, between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican David Perdue. -
Both the Democratic and the Republican candidates in Georgia's Senate runoffs ran as a unified ticket, but Raphael Warnock outpaced Jon Ossoff. NPR looks at how voters split their decisions.
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Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock's wins in the Georgia Senate runoffs cements Democrats' control of the Senate for the next two years, but comes as polarization and political violence are on the rise.
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President Trump has demanded total loyalty from Republicans, but nowhere more dramatically than in Georgia — where the last thing the GOP needed was an intraparty fight ahead of the Senate runoffs. -
The president's push to overturn the election is turning GOP voters against Republican state leaders in Georgia, just before close runoff elections that could have lasting national implications. -
President Trump's pressure campaign against officials in Georgia has caused a major rift within the Republican party. It could have major implications if the Senate runoffs don't go the GOP's way.
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The Republican incumbents are baselessly casting doubt on the state's voting system. Some in the GOP worry their words could depress voter turnout and cost the party two Senate seats. -
Control of the Senate is on the line in January's runoff elections in Georgia. And Republican infighting about how the November election was conducted may hurt the party's chances.
