Georgia Race May Leave Senate Balance Hanging Until January
- GOP incumbent Perdue may face Ossoff again in runoff
- Georgia’s other senate seat already set for January vote
Jon Ossoff, U.S. Democratic Senate candidate, center, stands for a photograph with a supporter during a campaign event in Stone Mountain, Georgia on Sept. 26, 2020.
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Both Republicans and Democrats are preparing for the possibility that both of Georgia‘s Senate races will go to runoffs, which would leave control of the the Senate in limbo until January.
Incumbent GOP Senator David Perdue was just shy of the 50% vote threshold needed to claim the seat outright, with most of ballots counted. If that holds, he would once again face off against Democrat Jon Ossoff, who trailed in the race by 107,782 votes out of about 4.9 million cast as of Thursday.