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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

What happened in Georgia politics in 2021, and what it could mean for 2022 - Atlanta Journal Constitution

At stake was control of the chamber, and that brought in armies of volunteers and nearly $1 billion in spending on four campaigns.

Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock pulled off a historic sweep, unseating GOP incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in a nine-week contest dominated by then-President Donald Trump’s lies about election fraud. Their victories gave Democrats the upper hand in both chambers of Congress — by the slightest of margins, but enough to allow incoming President Joe Biden to pursue a far more ambitious agenda.

  • Trump maintains grip on Georgia GOP. Donald Trump and his allies responded to their defeats in November 2020 with a barrage of misinformation, conspiracy theories and outright lies about election fraud in Georgia that helped incite the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Even now, the mythology that the election was “rigged” continues to dominate Republican politics, as GOP candidates jockey for the former president’s support and show up at “Trump Won” rallies.

Trump’s demand that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger reverse his defeat became the focus of an ongoing Fulton County criminal probe. Gov. Brian Kemp was booed at conservative gatherings for refusing Trump’s push to overturn Joe Biden’s win, and Trump even suggested at a September rally in Middle Georgia that he wished Democrat Stacey Abrams had won the governor’s race in 2018.

The former president endorsed a slate of four statewide candidates — and disavowed four others —...



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