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A few days before the second round of elections for two crucial Senate seats in the US state of Georgia, one of the candidates went into quarantine. Republican Senator David Perdue had contact with a corona-infected person, as his election campaign team announced Thursday. Although Perdue and his wife have so far tested negative for the new corona virus, they are now both in quarantine.
Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock will challenge Republican incumbents Perdue and Kelly Loeffler next Tuesday. According to polls, fierce duels can be expected for the two Senate seats.
The second round was necessary because none of the candidates in the November 3 congressional elections could obtain the required absolute majority. So far, Republicans have held Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
Record attendance is already emerging. More than 2.8 million eligible voters took the opportunity to cast their votes before the actual vote on January 5, according to state data released Thursday.
That’s significantly more than in the 2008 Senate election, when a total of 2.1 million votes were cast. The outcome of the second round decides whether future President Joe Biden can govern with the support of a parliamentary majority, or if he faces a divided Congress, which could make it very difficult for him to implement many projects or occupy important positions in the cabinet.
As it stands, President-elect Donald Trump’s Republicans have 50 seats in the House of Congress with 100 senators, Biden’s Democrats 48. Republicans only have to win one of the Georgia runoff elections to continue having the majority in the Senate.
