Samantha Handler

about.bgov.com — Georgia Senate candidates are pivoting their strategies in the state’s pair of January runoffs, working in concert to activate their party’s supporters and tailoring their messages to highlight that control of the chamber is on the line. Those are the stakes in the concurrent races between Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and their Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

about.bgov.com — Nearly three dozen Republicans in competitive races defeated better-funded Democratic opponents who in some cases outraised them by millions of dollars. Democrats hoped their fundraising advantage would help protect their most vulnerable seats and even expand their majority. Their majority is intact, but the party’s hold on the House has thinned. Seats they won in traditionally Republican areas in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Carolina flipped back to the GOP.

about.bgov.com — The Rev. Raphael Warnock launched a TV ad Thursday in the special election runoff for one of Georgia’s two Senate seats, while votes are still being counted in the race for the state’s other one. The Democrat, who is the senior pastor at Martin Luther King, Jr.’s former congregation, Ebenezer Baptist Church, finished first Tuesday in the 20-candidate field. He faces appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who finished second, in a Jan.