Can Warnock and Ossoff Really Win in Georgia?

Everything’s favoring them. But in Georgia, is that enough?

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If you were trying to construct the ideal circumstances for two Democratic Senate candidates in Georgia to win their runoff elections next month, I’m not sure you could set them up any better than they currently are. The pivotal Senate race should provide every possible advantage to the Democrats.

• The state of Georgia just went blue for the first time since 1992.
• One Republican candidate has never won an election in her life, actively campaigned with QAnon believers, compares herself to Attila the Hun favorably, was protested by players on the professional sports team she owns. Oh yeah, and she may have benefited from insider trading on Covid-19 facts that she as a sitting senator failed to provide the public she serves. Oh, and she’s attempting to cast herself as a fighter for regular people even though she is the richest of the 50 senators by a rather large margin.
• The other Republican candidate claimed the vice president-elect’s name was too difficult to pronounce even though he has worked with her in the Senate for years, has profited off his status as a senator in defiance of ethics rules, was involved in so much shady trading that you’d find it surprising he ever had time to be a senator…