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The Georgia Senate Runoff

Republican U.S Senators David Perdue (top L) and Kelly Loeffler (bottom L) and their Georgia runoff election challengers, Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, are seen in a combination of file photos. REUTERS/Staff - RC291L9QCAUL

This article was published on January 6, 2021.

All around the internet, there have been many people telling their followers to vote for the Senate in Georgia. As we are in Texas, we don’t have the opportunity to understand what this event entails, so The Voice of Frisco is here to tell you!

The Candidates

Georgia needed to vote for two senators due to Senator Johnny Isakson’s retirement in 2019. Because his term was through 2022, Georgia state law allowed the Governor to elect another senator to fill in Senator Isakson’s place. The first pair of candidates were Reverend Raphael Warnock, the Democratic candidate, and Senator Kelly Loeffler, the Republican candidate. The other pair of candidates were Jon Ossoff, the Democratic candidate, and Senator David Perdue, the Republican candidate.

The Big Issue:

Although any and every National election is important, one of the main factors that made this election very important was the imbalance. If both of the Democratic candidates were to be elected, the Senate would have more members of the Democratic party than the Republican Party. If both of the Republican candidates were to be elected, the Senate would have more members of the Republican party than the Democratic. Because of this, many people on the left told all of their followers and supporters to vote for Warnock and Ossoff, while the people on the right told all of their followers and supporters to vote for Loeffler and Perdue.

The Results:

Recently, in fact, today, the results came in for this election. This is however not approved yet so we aren’t completely sure if these people are going to be the ones in office or not, but they are who have won today. The winner for the first pair, Warnock v. Loeffler, was the Democratic party’s, Reverend Raphael Warnock. The winner for the second pair, Ossoff v. Perdue, was the Democratic party’s Jon Ossoff.

More Information

To learn more about the new Senators, click here for Warnock, and here for Ossoff. To learn more about the current Texas senator, John Cornyn, click here, and to learn about the United States Senate as a whole, click here.

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