From the New York Times. I'm likeable borrow. This is a daily today in the closely watched Georgia, one ass the day a crass win one race and are heavily favoured in the second pudding democratic control of the Senate within reach. My colleague need code on a historic night in Georgia. It's Wednesday January sixth,. well need good morning good morning. I have to say this was not a telephone call. Or a election call that we were expecting to have tonight. You know I am surprised to hear that. Their meaning there was worse planning on your end, then typically expect

you guys, and we had a really good journalistic authority- that Georgia Centre on us. We're gonna take days to come, And here we are, I guess, Seven hours after the Poles close And we have real news from this race through we have a projection. So they tell us exactly where things stand at two thirty m on Wednesday morning. In these Ross will there are two contests and one of them we have a projected winner. The Democrat Raphael Warnock has defeated. Kelly Lothar the Senate special action and in the regular Senate election between John Ass off and David for do the Democrats. John ass off, has a slight lead of a few thousand boats, with nearly all of the vote in encountered so help understand how we, I have one Senate

Race called the other not colleagues from having a little bit of trouble? joining in a race were to Denmark it's on the ballot into Republicans or on the ballot understanding how one Democratic sent a candidate get ahead of the other. I had long imagine that any democratic voter who cast a ballot was gonna costume, for both that's, let's certainly reasonable expectation. You. I think that there are a lot of people who vote based on personality based on how much they like somebody and as far back as the November elections. It was clear that the Democrats were better position than the special action than they were in the regular

schedule action and in a couple of explanations, one, is that the Republicans at a pretty brutal primary in the run up to the November special election and Kelly LA fuller, ran pretty far to the right. In that primary, you may recall that she ran home is an advertisement claiming that she was further to the right and until it in contrast, there was not a fierce, Inter Party battle on the right for the regularly scheduled election David. Pretty was a well established incumbent anew, despite being very conservative, still has a little bit of appeal to a traditionally republican vote may be, has swung over to the Democrats in recent cycles and we're talking about a very small number of voters be clear at the moment. There's only about a percentage point that separates the two candidates, so doesn't take much to create this sort of seemingly significant difference. What is the fact

at the race, has been called for Raphael Warnock, but not for John Alsup. Tell us about exactly who showed up for this election. I don't think it tells us anything. I think that, basically, under any plausible turnouts, an area we expect it or not to be in the stronger position, this race, that wasn't a negative horse, but that was the expectation we do no wrong. The results that we see at the present level and by county Democrats enjoyed a really strong turnout in this election. A higher proportion of voters appeared to return to the poles, for this run off election in democratically in prisons and counties, in particular and majority bootblack precincts Counties then did in counties that voted for the president or war majority wife without a degree that feels are giving we do not understand. Special elections run off elections there. ver draw the same kind of turn out that presidential elections

so this feels very unique yeah. This is a huge turn out. I mean there were a lot of truly terrible turn out predictions over the last few months and at the moment I think the turnout is close to ninety percent of the general action. More people voted in this election than voted in Georgia. In the twenty sixteen presidential election now granted, there's been population growth in Georgia since then, and Georgia has become a more competitive state, the presidential level since then- and this is a place for controlled the Senate, but I think that indicates that this was evidenced. Basically, a presidential electorate that we had when typically runoff election might be expected to look at best a mid term, but often even a lower travel action in that something more like a primary election than a mid term elections. Now you started to mention the turnout of black voters in Georgia,

And I wonder how significant that was and how central you think that is to warn OX projected victory and os offs lead. So far. The huge part of that Georgia has the second or third largest black population. The country in the general election was probably something just short of thirty percent of the vote, and so that the majority of the democratic voters in the state. All indications that we have right now suggests that the black sheep of the electorate was higher in these run off. Elections than it was in the general election in November is still too early to pin that down with precision. I won't get authoritative data on that so had all the data that we have at this point suggests that the increase in black turn out or maybe put more precisely, the decrease in black turnout compared the general election was smaller than the decrease in white turn out or latino turn out or particularly white working class turn out, So all the mobilization that we have been.

hearing about and talking about on, the daily of the black Georgia Electorate, for this run off and really, I guess, starting with the presidential election that has truly potentially made the difference here in at least one and possibly both of these centres on us I think that that extra mobilization, that that relative increase in the black share of the electorate could easily prove to be the decisive factor in democratic and back the Senate when we have all the data and safer so based on the current vote counting. Should we assume the John US stands a reasonably good chance of putting out a victory of his own like or knock em. Just how connected are these two issues?

Is it possible to imagine that the Democrats, when one sees the Warnock seed and the Republicans when the other she had the producing, I don't think that's real sick. At this point, theirs. I can be a call for a little bit. If you remember from the general election, the news organisations are reluctant to call these races until a candle leads by more than the margin of a recount by jars of his essentially one this race and at the moment, he's up by three tenths of a point. Thirteen thousand votes are so that's a largely than Joe Biden led was in the final account in Georgia in terms of both percentage points, anvil margins- and I mean all of the remaining vote- left his democratic vote. There are fifty thousand absentee ballots that are gonna break, for. Ass, our fire to one larger, more their provisional boats that are gonna break for us off. It's just dumb, there's not a path for David produce, even if the networks may not called a race in the immediate future. It's it's not there for the Republicans need, I think, along people. Listen to you

talk. The way you are is going to be among the first times dawn on them. That Democrats are very much on the cusp of re, taking control of the Senate, and that has a lot of implications. Yeah you're right. We can't make the call by the Democrats. For all intents and purposes, this point will will control the Senate and the consequences of that for the by Presidency are enormous. It will allow them to confirm nominees with considerably greater ease it'll. Let them pass budget reconciliation packages that what then do all sorts of things with a mere majority of the votes, it'll give them control the committees and in it will completely transform the first two years of vines presidency will be right back

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whether that was gonna depress, the republican vote that seem to have happened. You, I think, that's tough, the same the republican turn was really healthy by any measure other than the final result, I mean the turn out in overwhelmingly Trump precinct. Eighty eight percent of the general action. You know you don't have the sort of stupendous turn out only from side it clearly, the democratic turn out was superior to the rubble, can turn out in this lecture. I think that's pretty obvious when you look at the the precept results, at least if your comparing to the general action taking that as your slide, whether you want to think about that. As you know, the President motivated Democratic Biden, voters by thumbing his nose in the face of their victory and basically not hearing the message they were trying to send or you want to say that he deflated republican voters by sea their votes, wouldn't count and I'd that's very hard for me to

tangle, maybe some combination of both of them. I think a lot of people are wondering if what happened tonight, in Georgia starts tell us something about President Trump and a bad. Trumpets em and whether or not the party and when elections when Donald Trump is not on the ballot and so Why are we learning from the results so far element to be? This lesson was very much dominated by the you're back in November. These two candidates ran head of President Trump in Georgia over the last two months. I would argue that their more tied to the president, ever before and arguably in a way that makes it harder and harder for them to win over. The sliver of Biden produce voters that they want in November

And when you refer to a Biden, Purdue voter? Well, I guess what you mean is someone who's a model. Republican in Georgia who might favour Senator Purdue, who was up for election. Tonight, an Joe Biden but might have reservations about Donald Trump or its republican and there, lot of these voters on the north side of the Atlantic, in the most affluent areas of North Fulton and a cab counties and so the president has continuously makes it harder for Republicans to distinguish themselves from him at the same time, if the present does tomorrow, mobilise and motivate Democrats to come out against him, and I think, for the last two months of done plenty to convince people that they come out and vote if they're, a Democrat and George after you know the way, the presence after over the last few months. Do you suspect that the results here and given, you just said- means that there were

Working party is going to work. Start on tethering itself, from Trump ISM and from Trump, because regardless of the strength of his base, this legendary group of voters that will come out when he asks them too happened in Georgia suggests that he is starting to be seen as much as a problem for Republicans as a solution going forward. The present has put the Republican Party in a tough spot. I mean the fund an old dynamic that the Republicans face right now. It's the president is just a little bit less poor, they'd like him to be nationwide and critical, battleground states and in Georgia, traditionally republican state and as a result for them, the when they need to win over a few. Voters, but that many

a few voters who don't like the president and you may be used about Republican before the president came to dominate american politics, but he just makes it too hard for me to be able to do that because he's such a dominant force an american life since, as you know, in a few, hours congresses convene and its job will be to certify present electro buttons, victory in the Electoral College, Many Republicans intend to object. It is expected to be chaotic and polarized an ugly, and I wonder what worn ox projected win and also lead mean for that process. Potentially, I think it has the potential to change the dynamic a bit if you stepped back for a moment and the Republicans came out of the November elections, feeling pretty good the scheme of having lost a presidential election, they won a lot of the Senate. Races they wanted to win. The president did better than their eggs,

acted, and you know they didn't have too many reason to think after that that they needed to go and distance themselves from him now. As a result, many republicans have been inclined to follow him down of increasingly perilous path toward contesting this presidential election and now Republicans are going to look at a very different set of results and they will have also as a result of losing cost. The party control of the Senate. Potential yes, will in all likelihood will cost the party control the Senate, and I would think that, being on the verge of losing control, the Senate would make them at least reconsider the idea there are no political cause to following the president down this pretty reckless.

the challenging legitimate democratic election results in a half dozen states, including, I believe, torture, including Georgia on eight. Thank you get some rest. We pursue time. No problem, thanks for having me we were told that we couldn't where this election, but tonight we drew them with home hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible, on Wednesday morning. a fail. Warnock spoke to his supporters recalling his journey from above,

look housing project in similar to becoming the first plaque senator from Georgia. and my mother, who was a teenager growing up in way cross Georgian used to pick somebody else's cut the other day, because this is a man the eighty two year old has used to pick. Somebody else's cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son, the United States Senator. So I come before you tonight as a man knows that improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in America,.

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