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Georgia Runoffs Put Each Party to the Test

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The last bout of the fight for the U.S. Senate runs through Georgia. And this time, no one has any reason to pull punches.  Guest: Greg Bluestein, reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All weekend long Greg Blustin has been trying to answer a question that seems simple enough.

1:10.6

Does his senator have COVID?

1:13.6

And we're waiting any minute now for results of yet another PCR test to show whether or not she

1:19.9

has the disease definitively or not. Greg reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

1:25.0

The senator in question here is Kelly Leffler. Over the last 48 hours news has dribbled out

1:30.7

about Leffler's tests. First she tested positive, then she got an inconclusive test.

1:37.2

Then she tested negative, but she was in isolation anyway.

1:41.6

As Greg reported this story out, he wasn't just wondering about Senator Leffler,

1:46.6

because she had been hitting the campaign trail with her senate colleague David Perdue.

1:51.1

Both of them are facing down in January runoff and they're hoping to go back to Washington.

1:56.1

All the Republican candidates that have not great time now might have to self isolate for two weeks,

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