Cross-cutting considerations in Georgia’s runoffs

President Trump’s presence looms large for Georgia voters in next month’s two unusual runoff elections for the U.S. Senate.

Both incumbents, Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, are Republicans. Perdue’s Democratic opponent is filmmaker Jon Ossoff, and Loeffler is facing Democratic Rev. Raphael Warnock. The Jan. 5 contest is the first time a double runoff will be held, with party control of Congress’s upper chamber hanging in the balance. This all happens as the president repeatedly blasts Georgia state Republican officials for not doing enough to prove his claims that election fraud was rampant in the Nov. 3 election.