Three new Democratic senators were sworn into Congress on Wednesday afternoon, granting effective control to the Democratic Party over both chambers of Congress in addition to President Joe Biden’s new control over the executive branch.
The three senators — Alex Padilla (D-CA), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Jon Ossoff (D-GA) — were sworn in together by Vice President Kamala Harris around 5pm EST.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> Harris swears in Senators Ossoff (D-GA), Warnock (D-GA) and Padilla (D-CA). <a href="https://t.co/rfws3jUrQb">pic.twitter.com/rfws3jUrQb</a>
— CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1352012574401982465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
Ossoff will be the only one of them to serve a full six-year term as the other two senators will be finishing out terms that expire in 2022. Warnock will be finishing out the term of former Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), who retired in late 2019 for health reasons; Padilla was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) to finish Harris’ term.
Following the swearing in of the three new Democratic senators, Harris recognized Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the former minority leader for the Democrats in the Senate, as the Senate majority leader for the first time in the 117th Congress.
As the new Senate majority leader, Schumer gave a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday saying that the country had “turned the page to a new chapter in the history of our Democracy” with the inauguration of Biden and Harris, and he was “full of hope.”
Schumer, however, said the “hope we feel today” has been “tempered” by the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, the recent attack at the Capitol building, and the atypical inauguration. “But, as President Biden said a few hours ago, today Democracy has prevailed, the will of the people was heeded, the peaceful transfer of power fulfilled. It takes a lot more than a band of hooligans to bring our grand Democracy down,” he said.
“Today, the threat to our Democracy from the presidency itself has ended, but the challenges we face as a nation remain,” said Schumer. “In the wake of violence and division, hatred and mistruth, in the shadow of disease and economic hardship, a warming planet, an unequal society, we begin the work of the 117th Congress.”
Schumer’s references appeared to be an implicit nod to Biden’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/team-biden-vows-decisive-action-on-four-crises-in-first-ten-days">ten-day agenda</a>, which White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain recently suggested will focus on: “the COVID-19 crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a racial equity crisis.”
In a pre-Inauguration Day memo to senior staffers, Klain wrote: “In his first ten days in office, President-elect Biden will take decisive action to address these four crises, prevent other urgent and irreversible harms, and restore America’s place in the world.”
Biden has since tweeted that he’s gotten “right to work” on addressing these four topics.
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After taking the oath of office this afternoon, I got right to work taking action to:
&#8211; Control the pandemic 
&#8211; Provide economic relief 
&#8211; Tackle climate change 
&#8211; Advance racial equity
— President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1352029117974278145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2021</a></blockquote>

Joe Biden Sworn In As 46th President Of The United States At U.S. Capitol Inauguration Ceremony

Three Newest Dem Senators Sworn In, Schumer Becomes Majority Leader

Charles Schumer

Jon Ossoff

Raphael Warnock

After weeks of campaigning in the turbulent and chaotic aftermath of November 3rd, Georgia’s runoff elections are finally over. With only a handful of votes left to be counted, both Republican incumbents have been defeated. Jon Ossoff — a millionaire armchair socialist-lite — beat David Perdue by over 41,000 votes (0.92%), and Raphael Warnock — a radical who has espoused anti-Semitic and anti-American sentiments — beat Kelly Loeffler by over 79,000 votes (1.8%). 
While it is possible that recounts will be requested, both margins are larger than the threshold required to automatically trigger a recount under Georgia law.
Many close to President Trump expressed disbelief consistent with the denial demonstrated since November’s election, including White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who <a href="https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1346845701284753410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1346845701284753410%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D178746action%3Dedit">implied</a> that Warnock’s win was illegitimate. It is likely that some will continue to refuse to accept the reality that Trump, and some who aligned with Trump, lost the election. Setting that debate aside, however, to apply that logic to the Georgia runoff races is simply an act of mathematical denial.
A basic analysis of the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/results-georgia-runoffs.html"> vote</a> explains precisely why Loeffler will soon be replaced by a radical socialist embroiled in multiple scandals. In the counties of Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, and DeKalb — the counties which surround Atlanta — Warnock outperformed his November margins. In Fulton, he increased his margin by 2%. In Gwinnett, 4%. In Cobb, 2.4%. In DeKalb, 2.5%. In the top 35 most populous counties that Loeffler won, she underperformed her November margins, in some cases by multiple percentage points. 
When one candidate improves and another declines, it doesn’t take a mathematical genius to understand why the improved candidate has a better chance of emerging victorious in an already tight race.
The same is true of the closer race between Ossoff and Perdue. In Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb and DeKalb, Ossoff outperformed his November margins. Indeed, in every county that Ossoff won, he outperformed his November margins, and even flipped two counties (Baldwin and Washington). Perdue, on the other hand, consistently underperformed in multiple counties. Given that Perdue only received 1.8% more than Ossoff in the November election, it’s easy to see how Ossoff achieved his victory.
The brutal fact is that Republicans lost in Georgia solely because Republican voter turnout decreased since November. The driving factors behind this reduction in turnout in historically red counties are numerous, but likely include the campaign against the security and safety of the elections in Georgia. It’s difficult, after all, to convince people to vote while also claiming that their vote is meaningless. While that campaign ultimately drove down voter turnout, the Democrats focused on the opposite.
If Republicans and conservatives hope to avoid making the same mistakes of this election, then it’s crucial that we learn from these mistakes. At its heart, this means understanding that turnout cannot be taken for granted and that any electoral strategy which involves suppressing our own vote will have dire consequences.
Ultimately, the Democrats will now control the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate entirely because of Republicans&#8217; self-inflicted wounds. 
Ian Haworth is host of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPxdVsNp7k&amp;list=PLhi-aq-5DfuTQRVv1IOVMnA735vEYO0f5">The Ian Haworth Show</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E05t2L69Sks&amp;list=PLhi-aq-5DfuRHu5r0IV5qr4h2rBAV9oBd">The Truth in 60 Seconds</a>. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">@ighaworth</a>.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Ossoff and Warnock

The Numbers Don’t Lie: Voter Turnout Is The Reason Ossoff And Warnock Won

David Perdue

Election 2020

Georgia

Kelly Loeffler

U.S. Senate

The two Democratic candidates in Georgia have been projected as the winners of the January 5 senatorial runoffs, The Associated Press reported Wednesday afternoon.
The Associated Press, which calls an election race after a candidate ceases to have a path to victory, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/Georgia-election-results-4b82ba7ee3cc74d33e68daadaee2cbf3">called</a> the Georgia Senate race for Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff on Wednesday afternoon. Ossoff was running against incumbent Senator David Perdue (R-GA).
Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock, reports AP, also secured victory over Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), who assumed the seat after former Senator Johnny Isakson, who retired for health reasons on New Year&#8217;s Eve 2019. Warnock, 51, will serve the remainder of Isakson’s third Senate term, which doesn’t expire until 2022.
Georgia hasn’t been represented by a Democrat in the U.S. Senate since 2005.
DecisionDeskHQ, an <a href="https://results.decisiondeskhq.com/">elections tracker</a> that has also called the races, shows Ossoff leading Perdue by about .6% of the vote and Warnock leading Loeffler by nearly 1.5%. NBC News, The New York Times, Fox News, and The Washington Post have also projected the two Democrats as victorious.
The outcome of the dual runoff elections means the U.S. Senate will be split 50-50, with Republicans holding half of the seats in the chamber and the Democrats, including two independents who caucus with Democrats, also holding 50 seats in the chamber. A Vice President Kamala Harris could then serve as a tie-breaker, giving Democrats the slimmest possible Senate majority.
Loeffler maintained in a speech shortly after midnight that a “path to victory” was still available to her in the race, <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/democrats-sweep-georgias-runoffs-flip-control-of-us-senate/CMV2J37IMBBOHAUG2QOO4YP45M/">reports</a> the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“This is a game of inches,” said Loeffler. “We are going to win this election.”
In a statement also after midnight, Purdue’s campaign said “time and transparency” would be necessary to be certain of the election results. “We will mobilize every available resource and exhaust every legal recourse to ensure all legally cast ballots are properly counted. We believe in the end, Senator Perdue will be victorious,” said his campaign.
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Statement from our campaign: <a href="https://t.co/evoAgl05dy">pic.twitter.com/evoAgl05dy</a>
— David Perdue (@Perduesenate) <a href="https://twitter.com/Perduesenate/status/1346718678868516865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
In a speech made before outlets called the race, Ossoff said that his Senate campaign “has been about health and jobs and justice for the people of this state — for all the people of this state.”
“Whether you were for me, or against me, I’ll be for you in the U.S. Senate. I will serve all the people of the state,&#8221; he added.
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Thank you, Georgia. <a href="https://t.co/IupT2d69aF">https://t.co/IupT2d69aF</a>
— Jon Ossoff (@ossoff) <a href="https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/1346803590489206784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
Warnock, whose victory was projected prior to Ossoff&#8217;s, said in a virtual speech: “We were told that we couldn&#8217;t win this election. But tonight, we proved that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything is possible.”
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LIVE: Reverend Warnock Addresses Supporters on Election Night <a href="https://t.co/3AjHzC35qy">https://t.co/3AjHzC35qy</a>
— Senator-Elect Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReverendWarnock/status/1346690996839464961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote>

Senate Candidates Jon Ossoff And Rev. Warnock Campaign Day Before Georgia Runoff Election

Associated Press, Other Outlets, Call Both Georgia Senate Races For Dems

In response to the wins in the Georgia Senate runoffs on Tuesday night, Al Sharpton said that the era of &#8220;legal apartheid&#8221; may finally have come to an end.
Speaking with Joe Scarborough on &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; Sharpton said that Georgia&#8217;s decision to elect the first black woman vice president and its first black senator was a symbol that the old guard is over.
&#8220;Here we have in the state of Georgia, a state deep in the heart of the old Confederacy, a state that voted to elect America’s first black vice-president in November, and a state that just voted to elect the Democratic Party’s first black senator. What does that mean about where this country is after four years of Donald Trump?&#8221; Scarborough asked Sharpton.
&#8220;It means that this country has really come back unto showing that we’re not going backwards to the days of legal apartheid or segregation and divisiveness,&#8221; responded Sharpton.
Sharpton credited Donald Trump and his &#8220;asinine way&#8221; of behaving for the victories in Georgia on Tuesday night.
&#8220;I want to thank Donald Trump for being Donald Trump, because if he had not been acting in the asinine way he had, I do not believe we would have had the victory in Georgia. The fact that he is so bull-headed and stubborn, I think that he has aided and abetted the takeover of the Democrats of the Senate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At least to match them 50/50 with a tie vote to the first black woman and the first woman vice-president. No one could have messed it up like you did, Mr. President. And we’re going to be ever grateful for you going out and ushering in a new day in America that brings us back to where we ought to be.&#8221;
Despite Sharpton&#8217;s hits against Trump&#8217;s behavior, he did concede after the election that the president did much better with blacks and minorities than “he should have.”
“He has done better than, in my judgment, he should have with black men and Hispanics, which means that we’ve got to really look in the civil rights community, both on the Latino and the African American side, on a real conversation in our communities on what it is to be different in terms of being entrepreneurial aspirants and being fair in terms of how we look from the whole,” Sharpton said on “Morning Joe,&#8221; as reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2021/01/06/sharpton-georgia-result-shows-usa-not-going-back-legal">Newsbusters</a>.
“I think he appealed to some that wanted to feel that they had to be a certain kind of way to be aspirational and that you can be that and still be centrists,” he continued.
On the issue of Joe Biden’s involvement in the 1994 crime bill, Sharpton said that too many did not understand that the former vice president was simply going along with what the leadership said at the time.
“I think that a lot of them bought into the false view they were putting out on Joe Biden with the crime bill rather than dealing with the fact that Joe Biden was going along with the majority of people, even in the black leadership with the black crime bill,” said Sharpton.
Going forward, Sharpton said that Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) are going to have to work to capture those communities if they win the White House.
“I really believe there is going to be a lot of work in those areas,” he said. “If we ignore it, or act like it doesn’t matter, I think is not wise and I think if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, if they’re successful, are going to have to really work.”
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/al-sharpton-trump-did-better-than-he-should-have-with-black-men-and-hispanics">Al Sharpton: Trump ‘Did Better Than He Should Have With Black Men And Hispanics’</a>

Family Of Keyon Harrold Jr Demand Assault Charges Be Filed After False Theft Charges

Al Sharpton: Georgia Win Means No Going Back To ‘Legal Apartheid’

2020 Election

Al Sharpton

Democrats and leftists immediately called for radical legislative action to be taken to ram through the entire agenda of Democrat Joe Biden following Reverend Raphael Warnock&#8217;s projected victory over Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) in Georgia&#8217;s runoff election.
Democrats have not yet officially gained control of the Senate because the other Georgia runoff race, Democrat Jon Ossoff vs. Sen. David Perdue (R), has not yet been called, although it is trending in a positive direction for Ossoff.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-at-stake-in-georgia-11609540879">warned</a> last week that if Republicans lost control of the Senate it would effectively end the prospect of any meaningful oversight over Biden, including the scandal involving his son, who is under federal criminal investigation over his taxes and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-federal-criminal-investigation-into-hunter-biden-focuses-on-his-china-business-dealings-report-says">foreign business dealings</a>. Having lost control of the Senate Committees, Republicans would also lose the ability to stop any of Biden&#8217;s nominees.
The Journal added:
<blockquote>Some of our friends think Democrats couldn’t blow up the 60-vote legislative filibuster rule with a mere 50 votes. Their confidence hangs on West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, who says he supports the filibuster. But imagine the political and media pressure on Mr. Manchin if Republicans use the filibuster to block Joe Biden’s agenda. He’s always been a loyal party man when it really matters.
If the filibuster stays, Mr. Biden will need to compromise to get GOP votes for an infrastructure bill, new ObamaCare subsidies or repealing Section 230 on tech liability. A public option on health care is probably out of reach, as would be much of his climate agenda.
But if the filibuster goes, so do bipartisan restraints. Statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico become possible, with four new Senate seats to cement a Democratic majority. Mr. Biden’s aggressive union agenda has a chance, including overtime pay mandates and easier organizing of franchise chains. So do nationwide mandates for ballot harvesting and mail-in voting, a ban on arbitration in business contracts, price controls on drugs, huge subsidies for green energy and perhaps a carbon tax. We could go on.</blockquote>
Following Warnock&#8217;s projected victory and the likely victory of Ossoff, Democrats and left-wing activists immediately called for eliminating the filibuster, packing the courts, and adding new states in areas that will all but assure that Democrats end up with a total of anywhere from two to four new U.S. Senators.
Brian Fallon, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Make DC a state. Restore the Voting Rights Act. Eliminate the filibuster. Reform the courts. Revive democracy.&#8221;
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Make DC a state. Restore the Voting Rights Act. Eliminate the filibuster. Reform the courts. Revive democracy.
&mdash; Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/1346657971615444994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Left-wing activist Paige Wolf wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Well I&#8217;M calling it. We got the f***ing trifecta. Take no prisoners. Burn them to the ground. Kick that turtle shell straight to hell. Pack the courts. End the filibuster. Make DC and Puerto Rico and Guam all motherf***ing states.&#8221;
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At least Democrats are being honest now about what they’re going to do. <a href="https://t.co/5sr8q6sArW">pic.twitter.com/5sr8q6sArW</a>
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1346743276267741185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Adam Jentleson, former aide to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NM), wrote on Twitter: &#8220;If Democrats win both Senate seats in GA, it’s going to be hard to explain why they should promptly re-empower McConnell by seeking small-ball deals with him instead of getting rid of the filibuster and passing Biden’s big, bold agenda. Biden has a mandate. Time to use it.&#8221;
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If Democrats win both Senate seats in GA, it’s going to be hard to explain why they should promptly re-empower McConnell by seeking small-ball deals with him instead of getting rid of the filibuster and passing Biden’s big, bold agenda. Biden has a mandate. Time to use it.
&mdash; Adam Jentleson 🎈 (@AJentleson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AJentleson/status/1346657920646340614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Left-wing activist Walker Bragman wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Democrats will have complete control of the federal government for two full years. They can pack the court. They can end the wars. They can cut the (monthly) checks. They can guarantee healthcare. They can forgive student and medical debt. If they don’t, you know who to blame.&#8221;
&#8220;They will have to employ the nuclear option and eliminate the filibuster,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But they can do it. And given the GOP’s willingness to throw traditions out the window for power, they should. Eliminate the filibuster, ram through huge relief for everyday people and ride it to 2022.&#8221;
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They will have to employ the nuclear option and eliminate the filibuster. 
But they can do it. And given the GOP’s willingness to throw traditions out the window for power, they should. 
Eliminate the filibuster, ram through huge relief for everyday people and ride it to 2022.
&mdash; Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1346743929203519488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Radical Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) wrote: &#8220;VICTORY in Georgia must lead to transformative change across America! Recurring survival checks, union jobs that pay a living wage, guaranteed health care, racial justice, voting rights, immigration reform, climate action, repro justice, education, and MUCH more. It can’t wait!&#8221;
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VICTORY in Georgia must lead to transformative change across America!
Recurring survival checks, union jobs that pay a living wage, guaranteed health care, racial justice, voting rights, immigration reform, climate action, repro justice, education, and MUCH more.
It can’t wait!
&mdash; Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1346686036072673280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Left-wing activist Julie Roginsky wrote: &#8220;Trump has led his party over the precipice. First thing Democrats should do is eliminate the filibuster and get some real work done. Second thing they should do is grant statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.&#8221;
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Trump has led his party over the precipice. First thing Democrats should do is eliminate the filibuster and get some real work done. Second thing they should do is grant statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.
&mdash; Julie Roginsky (@julieroginsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/julieroginsky/status/1346762274808193024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Georgia Democratic Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock Campaigns On Election Day

Leftists Call For Radical Legislation After Warnock Projected Win: End Filibuster, Pack The Courts

Joe Biden

Supreme Court

If Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff ultimately prevails over incumbent GOP senator David Perdue (and at this moment the issue is still in doubt), the Democrats will control the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, which has occurred in five different periods since World War II.
One possible comfort for members of the GOP if they lose the Senate: in the last forty years, the two times the Democratic Party has controlled all three entities it has only lasted for two years: 1993-1994, 2009-2010. In the ten years before that, they controlled all three entities for four years: 1977-1980.
Following the tenure of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when the Democrats held control of those three entities for his entire twelve-year tenure (1933-1945), the Democrats held control between the years 1949-1952, 1961-1968, 1977-1980, 1993-1994, and 2009-2010. The GOP has controlled the three entities in 1953-54, 2003-2004, and 2016-2017.
In 1949, the Democrats held a whopping 54-42 lead in the Senate, with a 92-vote lead in the House. That shrank to a tiny one-vote Senate lead and 35-vote House lead in 1951. In the 1952 election, the GOP, led by Dwight Eisenhower, won the White House, the Senate, and the House.
The next time the Democrats were in control was in 1961, after the election of John F. Kennedy. Their Senate lead was massive: 64-36; (they had gained that huge lead in the 1985 elections) their House lead was 89 votes. They essentially kept similar numbers through the presidency of Lyndon Johnson; Richard Nixon’s election in 1968 gave the GOP the White House, but the House of Representatives was in control of the Democratic Party for an astonishing forty years, from the 1954 elections until the 1994 elections.
The election of Bill Clinton in 1992 gave the Democrats control of all three entities for the first time in 24 years; they controlled the Senate by a large margin, 57-43, and held a sizable 82-vote lead in the House.
The 1994 election, though, was a historic reversal; the GOP swept 56 seats in the House, turning what had been an 82-vote deficit into a 30-vote majority. After the election of 2000, the GOP gained control of the White House with the election of George W. Bush, still held control of the House, and actually would have controlled the Senate, which had wound up in a 50-50 tie, but Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont switched from the Republican Party to become an independent, received his committee assignments from the Senate Democrats and became chairman of a standing committee, thus denying control to the GOP.
The GOP did gain control in 2003, garnering a three-vote Senate lead and a mere 12-vote majority in the House. The four years between 2003-2007 were the longest the GOP had controlled all three entities since before Roosevelt.
In 2012, Barack Obama’s election meant the Democrats gained control of all three entities; the Democrats held a huge 60-40 majority in the Senate and a 79-vote lead in the House. That only lasted two years; in 2016 the GOP gained control of all three entities; that only lasted two years.

Capitol Building in Washington, DC

Recent History Of One-Party Rule Shows It Doesn’t Last For Long

Democratic Party

Republican Party

Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue both face potential losses in their Senate runoff races as election night continues to unfold in Georgia.
With more than 98% of the vote already counted, Reverend Raphael Warnock, a far-left Democrat, is up by approximately 50,000 votes over Loeffler and has been declared the winner by multiple news organizations. The razor thin margin that Perdue had over Democrat Jon Ossoff late on Tuesday night quickly evaporated and turned into a deficit of more than 15,000 votes.
&#8220;In largely complete results, Republican Sen. David Perdue won smaller vote margins than in November in about one-third of Georgia&#8217;s counties,&#8221; The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/georgia-senate-runoff-elections-2021?mod=hp_lead_pos1">reported</a>. &#8220;Where he underperformed tells a clear story: His biggest erosion came in counties that are home to many rural, Black voters.&#8221;
&#8220;Ten of the 11 counties in which Mr. Perdue&#8217;s vote margin declined most from November are labelled as &#8216;African American South&#8217; counties by the American Communities Project, which sorts the nation&#8217;s 3,100 counties by their demographic characteristics. It puts 84 of Georgia&#8217;s 159 counties into this category,&#8221; The Journal added. &#8220;By contrast, Mr. Perdue&#8217;s biggest margin gains compared with November came in a mix of county types. Among them were Bartow and Lumpkin counties, both exurbs of Atlanta, as well as Stephens County, considered an evangelical Christian stronghold. But in a sign that other factors are at work, Mr. Perdue also made strong gains in several other counties categorized as African American South.&#8221;
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Statement from our campaign: <a href="https://t.co/evoAgl05dy">pic.twitter.com/evoAgl05dy</a>
&mdash; David Perdue (@Perduesenate) <a href="https://twitter.com/Perduesenate/status/1346718678868516865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Late on Tuesday night, Loeffler addressed her supporters, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m asking for every single Georgian, every single American, stay in the fight with us. We&#8217;re going to keep fighting for you. This is about protecting the American dream.&#8221;
&#8220;With the races being so close, election officials with the Secretary of State&#8217;s office say they expect at least one campaign to request a recount,&#8221; Fox 5 <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/warnock-claims-victory-in-georgia-senate-runoff-loeffler-does-not-concede">reported</a>. &#8220;Under Georgia law, a candidate can request a recount if the margin is less than or equal to 0.5%. That request has to be made within two business days of the results being certified.&#8221;
This report has been updated to include additional information.

US-POLITICS-VOTE-SENATE

Republican Senators In Georgia Facing Potential Disaster As Election Night Unfolds

On Tuesday January 5th, Georgia will host two runoff elections to decide who will represent the state in the US Senate. On November 3rd, incumbents Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler and challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock failed to garner 50% of the vote. According to Georgia law, such races must be decided by a majority of the electorate.
Here is what the final polling data is showing on the eve of the elections which will determine whether the GOP will maintain control of the US Senate, or if the Democrats will achieve an effective majority with a 50-50 split being broken by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/ga/georgia_senate_runoff_election_perdue_vs_ossoff-7319.html#polls">Latest Polls</a> &#8211; Sen. David Perdue vs. Jon Ossoff
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">RealClear Politics Polling Average (12/14 &#8211; 1/3): Ossoff +1%.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Fox 5 (1/3): Tie</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Trafalgar (12/23 &#8211; 12/27): Ossoff +2%.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">WXIA/SUSA (12/16 &#8211; 12/20): Ossoff +5%</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Emerson (12/14 &#8211; 12/16): Perdue +3%.</li>
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From <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/ga/georgia_senate_perdue_vs_ossoff-7067.html">July to late October</a>, Sen. Perdue led Ossoff in the RCP polling average. However, in the month of October, Ossoff rapidly closed in on Perdue, overtaking him on October 29th. 
The final polling average had Ossoff at +0.7%, while Perdue went on to beat Ossoff by 1.8% on Election Day.
<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/ga/georgia_senate_special_election_runoff_loeffler_vs_warnock-7318.html">Latest Polls</a> &#8211; Sen. Kelly Loeffler vs. Raphael Warnock
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">RealClear Politics Polling Average (12/14 &#8211; 1/3): Warnock +1.3%.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Fox 5 (1/3): Tie</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Trafalgar (12/23 &#8211; 12/27): Warnock +1%.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">WXIA/SUSA (12/16 &#8211; 12/20): Warnock +7%.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Emerson (12/14 &#8211; 12/16): Loeffler +3%.</li>
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Prior to November’s General Election, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/ga/georgia_senate_special_election_open_primary-7069.html">polling data</a> suggested that Warnock was ahead of Loeffler. The RCP polling average put Warnock at +15.7%, WSB-TV at +11%, Emerson at +12%, PPP at +19%, and Monmouth at +19%. 
After Election Day, Warnock had a lead of +7%. It should be noted, however, that this was an open primary, with Republican Doug Collins receiving 20% of the total vote. Hypothetically, had Sen. Loeffler received Collins’ votes, she would have beaten Warnock by 13%.
Key Takeaways
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The polls for the General Election were inaccurate for both races (off by 2.5% for Perdue vs Ossoff and off by 8.7% for Loeffler vs Warnock). Not only that, pollsters incorrectly predicted that Ossoff would beat Sen. Perdue.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Ossoff’s current polling lead of +1% is similar to his +0.7% lead prior to November’s election. However, Warnock’s lead of +15.7% in November for the General Election is now just +1.3% for the runoff. While this may be caused by the fact that only two candidates are now on the ballot, this could also indicate a decline in popularity for the radical Warnock.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">No major poll correctly predicted the winner of both races. Emerson were the only organization to correctly predict that Perdue would emerge victorious, but they also incorrectly predicted that Loeffler would beat Warnock by 3%.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">While the accuracy and reliability of the polling data is clearly questionable, it is interesting to note that there are several discrepancies between polls for the same candidate. While the Fox 5 poll predicts a tie for both candidates, and Emerson predicts a 3% victory by both Republican candidates, the RealClear Politics average differs by 0.3%, Trafalgar by 1%, and WXIA/SUSA by 2% for both Democrat candidates. If accurate, this indicates that Ossoff and Warnock are experiencing differing levels of support within their party.</li>
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Ian Haworth is host of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPxdVsNp7k&amp;list=PLhi-aq-5DfuTQRVv1IOVMnA735vEYO0f5">The Ian Haworth Show</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E05t2L69Sks&amp;list=PLhi-aq-5DfuRHu5r0IV5qr4h2rBAV9oBd">The Truth in 60 Seconds</a>. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">@ighaworth</a>.

Georgia Runoff Elections: Will The ‘Expert’ Pollsters Be Wrong Again?

CNN host Jake Tapper called out Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff on Sunday for his false attacks on incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who is running against Democrat candidate Raphael Warnock.
Ossoff&#8217;s attacks on Loeffler, falsely claiming that she has been &#8220;campaigning&#8221; with a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was so categorically false that left-leaning CNN ran a fact-check <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/31/politics/ossoff-loeffler-kkk-fact-check/index.html">report</a> on the claim last week.
&#8220;This is false,&#8221; CNN ruled. &#8220;A former member of the KKK took a photo with Loeffler while she was campaigning earlier this month. Loeffler&#8217;s campaign said the senator did not know who the man was and would have removed him from the event had she known. This is not, at all, the same as &#8216;campaigning with a klansman,&#8217; as Ossoff claimed. Politicians often take pictures with people they don&#8217;t know.&#8221;
CNN noted that there was &#8220;no evidence&#8221; that Loeffler recognized or sought the support of the man in the picture. Loeffler&#8217;s campaign condemned the man, saying, &#8220;Kelly had no idea who that was, and if she had she would have kicked him out immediately because we condemn in the most vociferous terms everything that he stands for.&#8221;
Tapper pressed Ossoff about the claim during an interview on Sunday on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; which comes just two days before election day in Georgia.
Transcript of the exchange below:
<blockquote>JAKE TAPPER: You attacked Senator Loeffler this week, Loeffler, who is running against Democrat Raphael Warnock. You said that, quote, &#8220;Kelly Loeffler been campaigning with a Klansman&#8221; — unquote.
That&#8217;s not true. I mean, there — it is true that a former member of the Klan took a photo with Senator Loeffler at a campaign event. Her campaign says she didn&#8217;t know who he was at the time, and she has condemned him.
I&#8217;m sure you have taken photos with thousands of strangers. Isn&#8217;t it important for candidates to tell the truth?
JON OSSOFF: It is. And it&#8217;s even more distressing that this isn&#8217;t an isolated incident. Kelly Loeffler has repeatedly posed for photographs and been seen campaigning alongside radical white supremacists.
And I believe they&#8217;re drawn to her campaign, because her campaign has consisted almost entirely of racist attacks on the Black Lives Matter movement and on the black church. And so the fact that these elements continue to be drawn to her, to support her, to campaign alongside her, to appear in photos next to her is deeply distressing. And it&#8217;s happening at the same time that Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue and Georgia Republicans are mounting a vicious assault on voting rights in Georgia, lawsuit after lawsuit to disenfranchise black voters, purge the rolls, remove ballot drop boxes.
And I believe that one of the reasons we&#8217;re seeing such record-shattering turnout in Georgia right now is that Georgians are defying those efforts to rip away their voting rights and standing up and saying, we&#8217;re going to make our voices heard.
TAPPER: All right. But, just to be clear, she was not campaigning with a Klansman. That wasn&#8217;t true, what you said.</blockquote>
WATCH:
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Even Jake Tapper said:
“Just to be clear, she was not campaigning with a klansman. That wasn&#39;t true, what you said.&quot;
Why won’t Twitter won’t flag <a href="https://twitter.com/ossoff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ossoff</a>’s Tweet like they do to Republicans?
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&mdash; Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1345816831240581120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Get Out The Vote Rally With Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock, And Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris

CNN’s Jake Tapper Calls Out Democrat Jon Ossoff For Lying About Kelly Loeffler

Jake Tapper

In 2012, roughly two and a half months after he left the office of Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), where he was reputedly given top-secret security clearance as a &#8220;national security aide,&#8221; current Democratic Georgia senatorial candidate Jon Ossoff tweeted that his followers on Twitter should read Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese Communist Party-run propaganda mouthpiece.
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Esp. during 18th Party Congress, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/follow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#follow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/XHNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@XHNews</a> (Xinhua &#8211; Chinese state media). <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ff?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ff</a>
&mdash; Jon Ossoff (@ossoff) <a href="https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/266365301325717504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2012</a></blockquote>
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During his failed 2017 congressional campaign, Ossoff claimed he spent five years as a &#8220;national security aide&#8221; and bragged that he had been given &#8220;top-secret security clearance.&#8221; The Washington Free Beacon reported in March 2017, “The claim has been made in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6t-Gi1102s">campaign ads</a>, during <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV7FtwRPc4w&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=1m24s">campaign events</a>, and even in his <a href="https://electjon.com/news/2017/1/4/jon-ossoff-announces-congressional-bid-in-georgia">campaign announcement</a>.”
Ossoff had that clearance for only five months. The Free Beacon noted that the <a href="https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/plant-vogtle-and-the-westinghouse-meltdown-hit-donald-trump-radar/IcQSR08MzqZXSGK44qxswN/">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a> delineated the timeline for Ossoff:
January 2007: Ossoff starts in Johnson&#8217;s office as a part-time legislative correspondent, working 25-30 hours a week while attending Georgetown University.
May 2009: Ossoff graduates from Georgetown University.
Summer 2009: Ossoff spends time traveling before he returns to work as Johnson&#8217;s legislative assistant in August 2009.
January 2010: Ossoff is promoted to senior legislative assistant.
April to July 2010: Ossoff runs Johnson&#8217;s re-election campaign.
September 2010: Ossoff returns to Johnson’s Capitol Hill office.
March 2012: Ossoff receives a top-secret security clearance and staffs Johnson for work related to the National Defense Authorization Act.
Mid-August 2012: Ossoff leaves Johnson’s office.
The <a href="https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/ossoff-promoted-chinese-regime-propagandist-after-stint-as-national-security-aide/">Free Beacon</a> noted, &#8220;In July, Ossoff <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/georgia-senate-candidate-jon-ossoff-quietly-discloses-financial-ties-to-pro-ccp-hong-kong-media-company/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nationalreview.com/news/georgia-senate-candidate-jon-ossoff-quietly-discloses-financial-ties-to-pro-ccp-hong-kong-media-company/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1609269519681000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG3gpsRqsT_H4u943RAiew9BHqE-w">quietly disclosed</a> receiving a payment from a Chinese-backed media giant, but has since <a href="https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/ossoff-refuses-to-release-further-financial-information-after-controversial-payments-surface/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/ossoff-refuses-to-release-further-financial-information-after-controversial-payments-surface/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1609269519681000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHPrgJr485y1La6rSjBCNNxcQZR7A">refused</a> to release private financial information from his foreign film company, Insight TWI.&#8221;
A State Department official <a href="https://www.state.gov/senior-state-department-officials-on-the-office-of-foreign-missions-designation-of-chinese-media-entities-as-foreign-missions/">said on February 18, 2020,</a> of Xinhua News Agency:
<blockquote>We are designating five Chinese state-run media organizations as foreign missions.  That’s the Xinhua News Agency; China Global Television Network which falls under China Central Television, CCTV; China Radio International; China Daily Distribution Corporation; and Hai Tian Development USA, which is the distributor for the People’s Daily here in the United States. …
We’re making this designation based on the very indisputable fact that all five of these are subject to the control of the Chinese Government.  Obviously, the Chinese Communist Party has always had a pretty tight rein on media in general and state-run media in particular, but that has only further tightened since Xi Jinping took over.  Since he became general secretary, China’s Communist Party has reorganized China’s state news agencies and asserted even more direct control over them, both in terms of content, editorial, et cetera, et cetera.
In addition to the very clear state control of these media organizations, the PRC Government has also expanded its overseas media operations in recent years, including here in the United States.  … For Xinhua, this is an institution directly reporting to China’s State Council, which is the chief administrative authority of the PRC Government.  … And then just to reiterate, each one of these entities meets the definition of foreign mission under our Foreign Mission Act, which is to say they are either substantially owned or effectively controlled by a foreign government.</blockquote>

Democratic Congressional Candidate In Georgia’s Special Election Jon Ossoff Campaigns In Georgia

After Serving As ‘National Security Aide,’ Ossoff Boosted Chinese Propaganda Arm

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The two Democratic Senate campaigns in Georgia are warning the national party that they&#8217;re quickly running out of funds and are unable to keep up with Republican spending ahead of that state&#8217;s January runoff elections.
NBC News obtained a memo Monday claiming that &#8220;outside GOP spending&#8221; has left them struggling to keep up and money isn&#8217;t flowing in from the national party fast enough to fight what they believe is an uphill battle to flip Georgia&#8217;s two Senate seats.
&#8220;Eight days out from Election Day in Georgia&#8217;s crucial Senate runoff races, Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are &#8216;sounding the alarm&#8217; about their ability to keep pace with GOP spending, calling for a &#8216;significant increase&#8217; in grassroots donations to prevent running out of money,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/ossoff-warnock-warn-about-running-low-funds-seek-last-minute-n1252413">NBC News reports</a>.
The two campaigns authored the memo jointly, according to the outlet, and it was signed by both Jon Ossoff&#8217;s and Raphael Warnock&#8217;s campaign managers.
&#8220;To win this election in 8 days, we need to continue our historic efforts to turn out every single voter — but we won&#8217;t be able to do that if our fundraising revenue continues to fall,&#8221; the pair said.
By all accounts, Ossoff and Warnock have outraised their incumbent Republican opponents, Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Sen. David Purdue, drawing significantly from a national Democratic effort to seal up the two Georgia Senate seats &#8212; an achievement that would give Democrats narrow control of the Senate, and giving Democrat Joe Biden the cooperation of both houses of Congress, which is necessary if he hopes to achieve any of his policy objectives.
In recent days, though, it seems national Democratic party leaders, like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have reportedly soured on the two Georgia races and are no longer willing to risk long-term donor relationships on two candidates who are not likely to win.
&#8220;Now, after the party performed poorly in down-ballot races, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is no longer meeting with donors,&#8221; NBC News says. &#8220;Schumer is &#8216;pessimistic&#8217; about Warnock and Ossoff&#8217;s chances in Georgia next week and doesn&#8217;t want to ruin donor relationships, the source adds.&#8221;
That&#8217;s news to Schumer, according to his spokesman.
&#8220;This is absolutely not true and this anonymous &#8216;source&#8217; has no idea what they’re talking about, and it&#8217;s really sad NBC published it. Schumer has diligently made calls and fundraised for both Georgia candidates and is optimistic about their chances in January,&#8221; he told NBC.
Polling site <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/georgia-senate-polls/">FiveThirtyEight has both races</a> in the &#8220;toss-up&#8221; category, with Purdue narrowly leading Ossoff and Warnock narrowly leading Loeffler. Neither leading candidate, though, has more than a two-point lead on his opponent, leaving both polls within the margin of error.
The <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/ga/georgia_senate_runoff_election_perdue_vs_ossoff-7319.html">RealClearPolitics polling average</a> has Purdue in the lead by less than one point (he lead in the same race in 2014 by nearly 8 points). The outlet, though, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/ga/georgia_senate_special_election_runoff_loeffler_vs_warnock-7318.html">considers the Warnock/Loeffler matchup a &#8220;tie</a>.&#8221;

Reverend Warnock And Jon Ossoff Campaign For Georgia Runoff Senate Elections

Report: Georgia Dems Running Out Of Money For Senate Races

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A field analysis report from the Department of Homeland Security warns of potential violence in Georgia as the two runoff elections for the U.S. Senate near on January 5.
The Georgia run-off elections feature the crucial contests between incumbent GOP senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and their Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. If the GOP retains either one of the seats, the party will maintain control of the Senate; if not, the Democrats will control the Senate, House of Representatives, and the White House as there would be a 50-50 tie in the Senate and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris&#8217; vote would break the tie, thus giving president-elect Joe Biden a clear path to implement his agenda.
The report states:
<blockquote>We judge that Georgia faces a potentially heightened physical threat environment over the course of its U.S. Senate runoff election cycle, which may drive ideologically motivated violence or threats of violence similar to those seen nationwide during the 2020 presidential and state election season. We further judge that violent extremists or other actors could quickly mobilize to violence or generate violent disruptions or otherwise lawful protests in response to a range of issues, including possible disputes over the results of the U.S. presidential election.</blockquote>
The report cites several incidents in which threats of violence or actual violence occurred, mentioning “two separate July 2020 incidents, large groups of unidentified actors attacked state and law enforcement buildings” and July 25, 2020, when “approximately 100 people chanting ‘burn it down’ smashed windows and ignited fireworks embedded with nails in an attempt to set fire to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building on downtown Atlanta” as well as a November 21 incident in which “members of groups with opposing ideological views engaged in assaults and physical altercations in front of the Georgia State Capitola in Atlanta.”
The report cited cyber attempts to infiltrate state networks, including late June 2020, when “unidentified malicious cyber threat actors, using a possible foreign-based IP address, unsuccessfully attempted to connect to a Georgia state network associated with election systems” along with an October 2020 successful attempt: “unknown malicious cyber threat actors successfully infected a Georgia county network” which “rendered a local copy of voter signature files saved on a county server and a geographic information  system map of county polling locations temporarily inaccessible for several days during early voting …”
The report continued, &#8220;We assess that foreign threat actors view the national significance of Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff election as an opportunity to use social media and other influence tactics focused on the state.&#8221; The report mentions attempts by Iran and Russia media outlets to “amplify  … divisive narratives” regarding U.S. elections.
<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/government-report-warns-of-potential-violence-and-foreign-interference-during-georgia-senate-runoffs-191001382.html">Yahoo News</a> noted, “The agency based its judgments on a review of national and local media coverage, relevant social media postings, state law enforcement officials detailing ‘ideologically motivated violence or threats of violence’ and its other election violence assessments made over the past six months.&#8221;

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