In case you’ve missed the last few years of news, Georgia is now a premiere political battleground state with elections that have drastically influenced the trajectory of American politics—including the most recent 2022 midterms.
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp beat Democratic rival Stacey Abrams in the governor’s race by more than seven percentage points, harnessing the state’s strong economic footing and his early rollback of covid restrictions into a powerful campaign message that convinced both hardcore conservatives and moderate swing voters to reward his incumbency over Abrams’ ambitious visions for a more progressive Georgia.
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock survived his fifth election in two years to earn a full six-year term in the U.S. Senate in an abbreviated runoff against Trump-backed Herschel Walker, a former athletic standout who was marred in constant scandal and struggled to articulate what policies he would seek in Washington.
After Warnock and fellow Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff provided the crucial majority-making votes in 2021 runoffs, Warnock’s victory ensured outright Democratic control of the chamber with 51 seats, even as Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema shifted her public affiliation to be an independent who will still likely vote with Democrats.
Elsewhere in the country, a projected “red wave” of Republican Congressional victories in the midterms largely failed to materialize, and the GOP is starting 2023 with an even narrower majority in the House than...
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