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Numbers update: With about 13% of ballots in, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are slightly ahead of their Republican opponents.
Warnock has 282,257 votes to Kelly Loeffler’s 251,190 votes, representing a 5.8-point advantage.
According to AP VoteCast, a survey of Georgia voters, about three-quarters of those who supported Republican Senate candidates in tonight’s runoff races do not believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected in November. (He was.)
The AP has more details on the survey:
The poll of voters measured how deeply President Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud and misconduct have resonated with Republicans in the state.
Despite the courts, state officials and the Justice Department finding no evidence of widespread voter fraud, roughly 9 in 10 of the Republicans’ backers said they lacked confidence that votes in November’s presidential contest were accurately counted. Half say they have no confidence at all in the vote count. That’s roughly five times as many voters in November who said they had no confidence that votes would be counted accurately.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/05/georgia-senate-runoff-election-trump-republicans-biden-latest-politics-live
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