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Following the 2020 United States elections, both U.S. Senate seats in the state of Georgia went to runoffs concurrently held on January 5, 2021. As Democratic Party challengers defeated both Republican Party incumbents, [1] Democrats took control of the U.S. Senate, giving a government trifecta to the newly elected U.S. president Joe Biden.
With less than a month until the Nov. 5 Presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remain neck-and-neck in polling throughout Georgia.
The 2020 election was the first time Georgia has gone blue since 1980, when Georgia's Jimmy Carter won the state by nearly 15%. National Polling Numbers for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
Georgia election officials certified Ossoff's victory on January 19, 2021; he was sworn in on January 20. [7] Ossoff is the first Jewish senator from the Deep South since Benjamin F. Jonas of Louisiana , who was elected in 1878 , and the first millennial United States senator.
As part of the 2020 United States Senate elections, Georgia held run-off elections for both of its Senate seats on January 5, 2021. The run-off elections were triggered because of a Georgia law requiring a second round when no individual wins a majority of the vote in most federal, state, and local elections.
The latest polls from AtlasIntel, deemed the most accurate by polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight, found Trump leading Harris in Georgia by a mere 0.6%, with 49.6% of the vote to Harris’ 49%.
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The runoff election for Isakson's former seat was on January 5, 2021. The regularly-scheduled runoff election for the Georgia U.S. Senate seat held by Republican David Perdue was also decided in a January 5 runoff. Before the Georgia runoffs in the 2020 U.S. Senate elections, Republicans held 50 Senate seats and the Democratic caucus held 48. [203]