Two stunning victories for Democrats in Georgia upend the Senate
Joe Biden will now have a majority in both houses to work with
FOUR YEARS ago, any pundit predicting that the solidly Republican state of Georgia would send two Democratic senators to Washington in 2020 would have been dismissed as a crank. Yet that was the outcome of two extraordinary run-off elections held on January 5th, which may set a new model for winning Democratic campaigns in the usually inhospitable South. The contests were also the costliest Senate races ever—more than $500m was spent on a deluge of advertising alone—because they will determine control of the Senate for the next two years.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “So sweet and clear”
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