Dems Win At Least One GA Senate Seat. The Other Is Still Too Close To Call.

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, according to the AP, inching the Senate closer to a Democratic majority. In the race that would clinch it, Jon Ossoff currently leads Republican David Perdue.

This episode: political correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.9	I'm Scott Detro.
0:06.9	I cover the Biden transition.
0:07.9	I'm Kelsey Snally, cover Congress.
0:09.9	And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.
0:12.9	And it is 840 AM Eastern on Wednesday, January 6th.
0:18.5	And we are doing an early podcast, the first of two in your feeds today because, well,
0:23.3	because a major upset in Georgia could rewrite the script on the first two years of the Biden
0:28.1	administration.
0:29.4	The AP has called one Georgia Senate runoff for Democrat Raphael Warnock.
0:34.1	In the other Democrat John Ossoff has a lead of a little less than 17,000.
0:38.8	He has declared victory himself, but the AP and other outlets have not yet called the
0:43.5	race for him.
0:44.5	But Kelsey, if Ossoff does win as well, the Democrats control the Senate.
0:48.8	And that's, I mean, we cannot overstate how big of a difference that would make for the
0:53.0	next few years.
0:54.0	Oh, absolutely.
0:55.0	I mean, the difference between having control of the Senate and having a near control of
1:00.0	the Senate is like a completely different universe.
1:02.7	In part because it means that Democrats would have control over what gets on the Senate
1:06.5	floor.
1:07.5	And that puts a lot of pressure on, you know, House Democrats and for the party to come
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