AP Projects Both U.S. Senate Races in Georgia Won by Democrats

Chuck Schumer
Dick Durbin

Democrats flipping the Senate ushers in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

Mid afternoon on Wednesday, as the Capitol was under siege, the Associated Press (AP) made the final U.S. Senate election projected winner:

With the Democrats projected to have a 50-50+1 majority in the 117th Congress, the Senate ushers in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D, NY). The 4-term Democrat will be Majority Leader for the first time.

Illinois’ senior Senator Dick Durbin will wear two hats in the 117th Congress as Senate Democrats do not prohibit it:

  • Majority Whip
  • Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee given Senator Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) was removed as the Ranking Member

With a Democratic majority, Feinstein, as the senior Democrat in the Senate, will be the president pro tempore of the Senate, placing her #3 in the succession hierarchy behind the Vice President and the Speaker of the House.

Yes, numbers 1, 2 and 3 in presidential succession are all from the state of California, after the inauguration and the seating of the new Georgia Senators and Kamala Harris’ Senate successor.

With 98% reporting, here are the results for the full, 6-year term:

  • Jon Ossoff……………….50.3%………2,225,715
  • David Perdue…………49.7%………2,198,640

In the special election for the unexpired term of Mark Isaakson (through 2022):

  • Raphael Warnock….50.7%……….2,244,457
  • Kelly Loeffler…………49.3%……….2,179,969

Currently, both margins of victory are large enough to avoid a mandatory recount under Georgia law (losing candidate must be within 0.5% of the winner).

Former Senator David Perdue’s term ended Sunday at the end of the 116th Congress.

Appointed Senator Kelly Loeffler will remain in office until the Georgia secretary of state certifies the election results from yesterday’s Senate runoffs.

The Democratic Majority will not begin until the resignation from the Senate and inauguration of Kamala Harris as Vice President and the swearing-in of Senators-elect Ossoff and Warnock.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has already named California Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D) to immediately succeed Kamala Harris as the junior Senator from California as soon as she resigns as a Senator.


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AP Projects Both U.S. Senate Races in Georgia Won by Democrats — 21 Comments

  1. Schumers speech tonight says it all—

    they’re coming for our Rights.

    Suddenly “throwing the book at protesters” is in vogue now that its Right leaning voters supposedly doing it.

    BLM, Antifa, never an all out assault by highest level of Govt to go get them, even after burning, looting and beatings and taking over city blocks in multiple cities across America.

    Chuckie Schumer will lead the charge to get our Rights now–rights of freedom, assembly, gun ownership, access to the internet and newscasts that dont agree with his message, all under the guise of “Jan 6th 2021”.

    He sounded like a complete dictator at that podium tonight.

    Guess he and his have 74 million people to try and control.

    I’ll never believe Joe Biden was elected in a fair and free election.

    The Pols and Media are the enemy of Truth.

    They let a Domestic Violence abuser, Warnock of Georgia get elected with a blackout of that information–Senate got turned on that and Schumer is now in charge.

    No wonder the Capitol got charged today.

    BLM Antifa OK…Trump supporter?

    Coming for you.

    Chuckie Schumer will lead that charge.

  2. 4 years of Dems harassing Trump came to a head today.

    Unity – no way.

  3. Don’t know why that Goofball, Chuck Schumer, in not now in jail. Within last couple of years, this guy threatened Supreme Court Justices on the stairs outside of the Washington DC Supreme Court. All on videotape on national tv.

  4. Cindy is correct.

    Watch a wave of assassinations and vast areas of the country go ‘autonomous.’

  5. Things are changed forever.

    Biden did not win anything.

    The lies and manipulation will continue until the communists are killed.

  6. Not sure which “Constitution” the whore Senators & Congressman are reading; if they can even read.

    Supporting PROVEN WIDESPREAD Election FRAUD is NOT “upholding” the “Constitution.

  7. Trump has changed the GOP into the party of lies.

    We need a return to conservatism, not this disgusting cult.

  8. US needs to break up; otherwise bloodshed.

    Simple as that.

    The coming oppression to try and stop the uprising against tyranny will actually accelerate the storm.

    Forget about draining the swamp.

    The swamp needs to be nuked.

  9. The article states:

    With a Democratic majority, Feinstein, as
    the senior Democrat in the Senate, will be
    the president pro tempore of the Senate,
    placing her #3 in the succession hierarchy
    behind the Vice President and the Speaker
    of the House.

    Yes, numbers 1, 2 and 3 in presidential
    succession are all from the state of
    California.

    I think your information about #1, Vice President Mike Pence is incorrect.

    Pence is from our neighboring State of Indiana, making him a radical Republican instead of a radical Democrat.

  10. This was a “mostly peaceful protest”.

    If the DEMOCRATS want to play that game, we can too.

  11. Madison, thank you for pointing out where I was vague.

    I’ve applied this correction to the 2nd sentence with the following phrase added to the end:

    …after the inauguration and the seating of the new Georgia Senators and Kamala Harris’ Senate successor.”

    Hope that makes the point more clear.

  12. “Yes, numbers 1, 2 and 3 in presidential succession are all from the state of California.”

    Ages:
    Biden 78
    Harris 56
    Pelosi 80
    Feinstein 87

    If/when Biden is declared unfit – senility, dementia, etc – how will a replacement VP be determined? Appointed by Congress Senate and/or House, selected by Harris, other?

    According to NY Post on Dec 3, 2020:

    “President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday revealed that he broke his foot tripping on a rug after a shower as he chased one of his dogs and grabbed its tail.”

    What kind of moron or idiot would pull a dog’s tail? A very sensitive part of a dog’s body connected to nerves and spine that could severely injure a dog. What kind of moron? A Joe Biden moron.

    Injuries by pulling a tail:

    “Avulsion injuries caused when the tail is pulled strenuously stretch or tear nerves, while breaks near the base of the tail may sever nerves. If the nerves that control urination and defecation are injured, the dog may become incontinent.”

  13. I just listened to Trey Gowdy and a few others GOP big-shots condemn the “terrible violations of the law” committed by the protestors today and I take my hat off to these folks:

    they are truly world class hypocrites.

    When cops and mayors like weirdo Lightfoot and the communists running Minneapolis and Portland, and of course DiBlahzio, refuse to protect the innocent, the rule of law is doing great!

    When the letter soup deep state agencies spend millions on a typical witch hunt, the rule of law is doing great!

    When the First Amendment is being destroyed by Zuck Cuck, etc., Big Tech, the rule of law is doing great!

    When the corporate legacy ziomedia brazenly silences the President, and simply does not report on crucial events, the rule of law is doing great!

    When elections are blatantly stolen, the rule of law is doing great!

    When courts refuse to enforce the law, the rule of law is doing great!

    When the Supreme Court refuses to defend the Constitution, the rule of law is doing great!

    But when the people, literally, those whom the elected officials are supposed to represent, demonstrate all day peacefully and then a few, not necessarily even Trump supporters (false flags are very easy to organize with crowds!), storm the halls of Congress, then the GOP bigshots take to the air and lament the “tragedy” of the law being violated.

    No country and no regime can stand on such truly galactic levels of doublethink, hypocrisy and cowardice.

    This is the beginning of the end of this regime.

    Burn it down.

    Time to secede.

  14. Only way to stop the crooked corruption of the swamp cheaters is to STOP feeding the Beast, everyone has to stop paying TAXES no money to spend none of them needed…

    you cheat you pay…

    Game over its unbelieveable that this last minute illegal voting way was added in what only way you can win???

    Cheating…

    The sickening thing of all of this is that they are still and don’t care what caused these people to the edge…

    ITS THE CHEATING…

    breaking of our LAWS!

    you have pushed the limits…

    what is really horrid is how most of the Rhinos in office just stood there and none of them even get it…

    I say stop feeding the BEASTS…

    let them all stand in the foodlines…

    you like lawlessness you got it…

  15. At a press conference this morning Mayor Bowser of Washington DC was asked by an AP reporter, “If you were a governor, how would yesterday have gone differently for you?”

    She replied in part, “when we become the 51st state…”

    With Democrat control of the US coming, Jan 20th:

    – DC and Puerto Rico will become the 51st and 52nd States
    – Supreme Court gets at least 4 more Justices, no doubt far left wing
    – Open borders
    – Citizenship for millions of illegal aliens
    – Forgiving over a trillion dollars of student loan debt (RESPONSIBLE families who sacrificed and saved for their children’s college education end up being chumps)
    – Green new deal of crazy AOC adopted
    – Biden renews stupidity of Obama regime with regard to Iran on nuclear (Obama gave billions in cash to Iran)
    – Federal taxes are raised
    – More left wing craziness on energy. Oil drilling attacked by Biden.

  16. I hope the SCOTUS gets packed, then they will finally realize how it feels that their votes won’t count, just like ours didn’t.

    They should have done their jobs and listened and ruled.

    Instead, they scheduled the evidentiary hearing for after the inauguration date.

    That was an FU to Trump, now Schumer will get the last FU to SCOTUS.

    Kinzinger needs to shut his pie hole, he is the only GOP fool who has not found a CNN camera he didn’t like.

    Always mugging, but his GOP career is over.

  17. Yeah, where were these bureaucrats when BLM and Antifa looted and burned all year?

  18. Big surprise!

    Get ready for Soviet America.

    But first a dementia patient must be eliminated.

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