Live Updates:
Votes:
- Jon Ossoff 50.2% / David Perdue 49.8% with 98% of the precincts reporting in.
- Raphael Warnock 50.6% / Kelly Loeffler 49.4% with 98% of the precincts reporting in.
JANUARY 6
8:15 a.m. EST:
They just happened to find 50,000 ballots late last night. The USA is embarrassed by fools. Our Election Process is worse than that of third world countries!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
7:00 a.m. EST: Counting is due to begin again in one hour. What will happen with the 19,000 votes reported in Dekalb County?
5:08 a.m. EST: President Trump tweets about Fulton County:
Just happened to have found another 4000 ballots from Fulton County. Here we go!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
3:00 a.m. EST: Telemundo reports that Dekalb County is reporting technical issues with just 19,000 votes left to count.
2:00 a.m. EST: The AP called the special election for Warnock.
12:15 a.m. EST: Warnock declares himself the victory against Loeffler. The Squad claims Democratic victory as well, saying “We got Mitch out.”
12:00 a.m. EST: Counting of ballots stopped and will resume this morning. The final count as of 12:00 a.m. was:
- Jon Ossoff 50.0% / David Perdue 50.0% with 95% of the precincts reporting in.
- Raphael Warnock 50.4% / Kelly Loeffler 49.6% with 95% of the precincts reporting in.
JANUARY 5
11:09 p.m. EST: Loeffler is not expected to speak now while she awaits a more decisive indication of the election results.
10:50 p.m. EST: Twitter placed a warning label on Andrew Yang’s, former Democratic presidential candidate, tweet for declaring Ossoff and Warnock as winners of the Georgia Senate races. He wrote, “We won both seats!!! Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen!!! The first order of business should be getting $2000 cash relief checks out to everyone.”
10:30 p.m. EST: According to a tweet by WJCL News, Chatham County finished counting votes for the night. “Workers say they’ll be back at 8 a.m.,” read the tweet. “Still thousands of votes to be counted here.” However, at 11:21 p.m., GOP Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling said they counted everything they had and will return in the morning to count the absentee mail that came in on Jan. 5.
10:28 p.m. EST: Trump warns of a Georgia voter dump of Perdue and Loeffler’s ballots. In a tweet, he said: “Looks like they are setting up a big ‘voter dump’ against the Republican candidates. Waiting to see how many votes they need?”
9:55 p.m. EST: According to Fox News, Loffler is expected to make remarks around 11 p.m. A campaign official said they expect to know enough about the results to comment.
5:30 p.m. EST: The president tweeted a message about tomorrow’s vote count: “I hope the Democrats, and even more importantly, the weak and ineffective RINO section of the Republican Party, are looking at the thousands of people pouring into D.C. They won’t stand for a landslide election victory to be stolen.”
4:25 p.m. EST: Senator Kelly Loeffler and David Purdue released a statement, encouraged by voter turnout.
“We are encouraged by reports of high voter turnout across the state – particularly so in North Georgia, where President Trump rallied Republicans last night. But make no mistake about it: this is going to a very close election and could come down to the difference of just a few votes in a few precincts across the state.”
3:15 p.m. EST: Protestors gathered in Pennsylvania to support the president’s bid to stop certification of certain swing state results.
2:30 p.m EST: The Blaze report that a programming error in “some Dominion Voting Systems voting machines in Columbia County” required “voters to use emergency paper ballots for a short time.” President Trump appears to be referencing these ballots when he calls for them to be protected.
1:50 p.m. EST: Several messages from poll watchers are appearing online claiming that they are not allowed to serve from a practical distance:
Serving as a poll watcher today in DeKalb County. So far, DeKalb elections have asked me to sit in a far corner out of view; threatened to call the police; and now have called the elections supervisor. I’m following the state handbook and just trying to serve. Good grief! pic.twitter.com/IUQ4fBMbnZ
— David Belle Isle (@BelleIsle4GA) January 5, 2021
1:20 p.m. EST: President Trump has tweeted about the malfunctioning voting machines, confirming that he has had reports:
Reports are coming out of the 12th Congressional District of Georgia that Dominion Machines are not working in certain Republican Strongholds for over an hour. Ballots are being left in lock boxes, hopefully they count them. Thank you Congressman @RickAllen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2021
12:55 p.m. EST: Senator David Perdue has slammed his opponent Jon Ossoff for raising twice as much in funds from California as he did from the state of Georgia.
12:30 p.m. EST: Latest reports suggest that there are ongoing issues with voting machines in at least three counties. However, no official statement has been made yet.
11:30 a.m. EST: CBS46 reports that all voting machines are down in Spalding County.
11:15 a.m. EST: Social media reports suggest a number of voting machines have issues in various counties.
10:50 a.m EST: Gabriel Sterling, a top election official in Georgia who many outlets report “debunked” President Trump’s claims about voting machines in the 2020 election just tweeted:
“Some issues in Columbia Co. There was a programming error on security keys for some locations scanners & pollworker cards. Voting continues on backup emergency ballots. Newly programmed keys&cards are being taken to locations via law enforcement.”
10:20 a.m EST: According to Axios, the two Senate races today are among the biggest ad-spenders in history with a combined total of nearly $500 million.
9:50 a.m. EST: Senators Loeffler and Perdue have apparently decided to join a number of Republicans in their efforts to question the Electoral College certification tomorrow.
Pleased to announce that @KLoeffler & @sendavidperdue have just joined our great #StopTheSteal group of Senators. They will fight the ridiculous Electoral College Certification of Biden. How do you certify numbers that have now proven to be wrong and, in many cases, fraudulent!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2021
Elections for Georgia’s two United States Senate seats take place today; Liberty Nation will be bringing you live, up-to-date coverage throughout the day, including polls, news, shenanigans, and, of course, results as they arrive.
The eyes of America are on these two election runoffs as they will ultimately decide which party holds the balance of power in the 117th Congress. Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler is facing Democrat opponent Raphael Warnock and GOP Senator David Perdue is standing against Democrat challenger Jon Ossoff.
The latest betting odds show:
- Raphael Warnock (D) as the favorite on 4/7 against Kelly Loeffler (R) on 5/4.
- David Perdue (R) on 10/11 against Jon Ossoff (D) on 10/11.
All the latest polls have the Democrats beating the incumbent Republicans.
We’ll be updating this post throughout the day, so make sure to check back in.
