North Carolina Senate Race Still a Leading Indicator for Control of the Senate come 2021?

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

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North Carolina Senate race still a leading indicator for control of the Senate come 2021?

As Quincy Quarry News’ Political and Other Tawdry Affairs Desk opined before the recent election, this year’s North Carolina Senate election was projected to probably be a good indicator as to which party will end up with majority control of the United States Senate come the 117th Congress in January.

While it took a while for the Democratic challenger to finally concede the election, the eventual incumbent Republican did lead from start to finish in what was a relatively close finish.  

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Unfortunately, Election 2020 is still contested in some races as well as actually validly so as regards control of the United States Senate as the two senate races in Georgia are both heading to run-offs elections in January given that Georgia uniquely requires that the winner of its United States Senate elections receive a majority of all votes cast. 

Accordingly as well as unfortunately for Georgia residents, they will now have to suffer two more months of campaigning in what has already been well past an overly long election season.

The reason, both of the Georgia Senate races this year had a number to a goodly number of candidates, respectively, in its unique this year two senate races and thus no one was able to secure a majority of the votes in either race to win as is required by state law.

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While, admittedly, “it isn’t over until it’s over,” Quincy Quarry is still going out on a limb with the following projection.

Given that Republican candidates have already locked down fifty of the one hundred Senate seats for the upcoming session of Congress and thus only has to go one for two in the Georgia Senate election run-off elections in January in what has historically been a Red State in recent decades to retain control of the Senate come the New Year, the various odds would appear to favor the GOP retaining control of the Senate.

Conversely, the Georgia Democratic candidates need to go two for two to score but a tie with fifty Senate seats and then only have control of the Senate only if if presumptive Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is most likely sworn into office and so be would be put in the role of tiebreaker in the event of fifty/fifty tie in the Senate.

And as for new key indicators for interested in the upcoming senate runoffs elections in Georgia, following are two to consider.  One is if both senior Georgia Republican Party officials and the RNC Central Committee can keep still President Trump out of Georgia in the coming weeks.  And the other is just how effectively problematic opposition research on one of the Democratic challengers takes hold.

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