Both of Georgia’s Senate seats will be up for grabs next year. The same party is likely to win both
ON AUGUST 28th, when Johnny Isakson, Georgia’s senior senator, a Republican, said he would step down at the end of 2019, two years before his term is up, Democratic operatives whooped with joy. It “has never been clearer that the path for Democratic victory runs through Georgia,” proclaimed Nikema Williams, the chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia.
This gives Democrats an additional possible route to taking back the Senate, one they badly need. They would need to flip three seats if they win the presidency next year; four if they don’t . Though Republicans are defending 23 seats while Democrats are defending only 12, most of the Republican seats are considered safe. This week, the Cook Report characterised only three as a “toss-up”: Arizona, Colorado and Maine. Roughly twice as many are considered to be potentially competitive.
Ms Abrams, who delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech in February, has said she will not run for Mr Isakson’s seat. That is a setback for Democrats in what looks likely to be an uphill battle. It has been suggested that Ms McBath or perhaps Jon Ossoff, who in 2017 lost a special election in the district Ms McBath went on to win, might decide to run.
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