Emma Hurt
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Sources close to the campaigns say people in and around the White House put near-constant pressure on Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler to shape their runoff campaigns around Trump's demands.
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Even though both parties ran unified campaigns, nearly 20,000 Georgians appear to have split their votes in the two races, between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican David Perdue.
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President Trump has demanded total loyalty from Republicans, but nowhere more dramatically than in Georgia — where the last thing the GOP needed was an intraparty fight ahead of the Senate runoffs.
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The president's push to overturn the election is turning GOP voters against Republican state leaders in Georgia, just before close runoff elections that could have lasting national implications.
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President Trump's pressure campaign against officials in Georgia has caused a major rift within the Republican party. It could have major implications if the Senate runoffs don't go the GOP's way.
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The Republican incumbents are baselessly casting doubt on the state's voting system. Some in the GOP worry their words could depress voter turnout and cost the party two Senate seats.
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The 2020 election will actually end in 2021. That's when two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia will be decided by runoff elections that will determine which party controls the chamber.
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Georgia is one of the states that is too close to call in the presidential election. Trump won the state in 2016 by a margin of a little more than 5%. There are also crucial Senate races in the state.
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Millions of dollars are flowing into state legislative races. Redistricting and the coronavirus are expected to be top of the policy agenda in 2021 and party control could mean everything.
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Republicans spent about a million dollars in a state House race to flip control in their favor. It's symbolic of the big fundraising efforts for state legislative control before 2021 redistricting.