Pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson tells ‘Fox & Friends’ Republicans have a slight edge in the Georgia Senate runoffs as the Senate balance of power hangs in the balance.
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Steve the balance of power in
the Senate likely coming down to
just two run off races in
Georgia.
Republican incumbent, David
Perdue will face Democrat Jon,
Ossoff and Raffaele Warnock will
face Republican Kelly Loeffler how to break it down what it,
how to break it down what it
means Republicans hold the
Senate
if Joe Biden and Kamala
Harris are ultimately victorious
through all these legal
challenges and she becomes vice
president. That would make her
the tiebreaker in the Senate.
Huge stakes involved here,
two seats up for grabs,
which would mean, if Republicans
were successful. Not only would
they hold onto the majority, but
they would have one extra seat
for willing room in case a
senator like LISA Murkowski
Susan Collins, decide to break
with her party decide to do so
on a handful of issues,
Ainsley four Republicans, this
race keeping the Senate is that
more important than having a
republican president
in some ways.
You know at this point its
certainly very important to
Republicans, because its going
to be able to stop a lot of
things that a President Biden
would want to do far left to the
voter is or Republicans would
like to see.
It would also influence how a
President Biden as judges,
one of the things of trumps
legacy all of those judges. He
nominated that Mitch
Mcconnells Senate was able to
get confirmed and pushed through
very quickly
so thats why the Senate is so
important,
Steve, so Kristin one of the
determining factors in making it
so close for the Democrats was
Stacey Abrams down in Georgia
really had a gigantically
effective, get out the vote
campaign, and so many people from
all over the state wound up,
registering and voting.
As you see it right now, which
of the two parties has the edge
going into this runoff
Republicans still have a
slight edge in my view,
even though Georgia is going to
flip very slightly blue. After
all of this, recount is most
likely the presidential level.
It is still fundamentally a
state thats, pretty favorable to
Republicans
the question is: did Democrats
and Stacey Abrams build
infrastructure that can turn
people out over multiple
election sibletion or more about
incredible enthusiasm and
excitement at the presidential
level,
we will soon find out
Ainsley. I know Kelly Loeffler
will probably get Doug Collins
votes. Those two combined might
be enough to defeat the
reverend.
What are you expecting as far as
outside money and mudslinging
and commercials?
What can Georgians expect?
Well, the big winners in all
of this are local tv stations
based in Georgia, because there
is going to be an unbelievable
truck load of money coming down
to Georgia to put tv ads on the
air because its going to be the
only game in town up until this
November, all of these big party
donors were spreading their
money out across a variety of
races. Georgia has become the
only game in town,
so its very likely that
Georgians are going to see
nothing on their tv, but
political ads from here. Until
that runoff is concluded
Steve in those political ads
from the Republicans Kristen, I
would imagine Chuck Schumer.
Where is he going as soon as we
win Georgia? We are going to
change America in every ad.
Absolutely.
I think there is going to be a
lot of the talk about things
like Democrats, saying they want
to remove the filibuster.
This is not even just
necessarily about what the? U DOT s
Senate will look like for two
years or trying to block Biden,
administration and appoint
years
also about what would the rules
of the Senate look like
long term?
Would they do things like get
rid of the filibuster?
If Democrats are in charge, some
of them have signaled. They are
interested in packing. The court
Biden has backed away from
understanding thats unpopular.
These are the kind of long term
issues that go far beyond who is
just in the Senate for the next
two years that make this race so.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-10.