Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Hello, America. It is Eric Erickson here. Delighted to have you with me.

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I would like to start this hour with a phone call from Shannon about what's happening down in Georgia.

There is a runoff to decide whether or not the

United States Senate will have a power sharing agreement between the Republicans and the Democrats,

or will the Democrats just flat out control it? It matters for a lot of reasons. One of the

biggest is because of the committees. If you're a libertarian, I mentioned this yesterday, but Rand Paul came on a couple of weeks ago, and Rand was pointing out that if the Senate stays

50-50, which it would with Herschel Walker winning, he would be equal to the chair of his committee.

There would be a 50-50 split in that committee. So the Republicans, if a Democrat

missed today, could absolutely take control of the committee and shut the agenda down. And in terms

of generating votes, the Republicans only need a single Democrat to help them block nominees,

help them block legislation with a 5149 senator.

If Raphael Warnock wins, the Democrats control the majority of the committees and no Republicans will have the power to block anything.

And it'll be harder to block nominees. It'll be harder to get anything done for Republicans.

It'll be harder to obstruct Chuck Sch for Republicans. It'll be harder to obstruct

Chuck Schumer. So if you want to stop Joe Biden's agenda and you want to stop Chuck Schumer,

you've got to go vote for Herschel Walker. However begrudging, you may wish to do it because I

realize that some people have an enthusiasm issue there for the candidate equality matter, but you're

essentially voting to help the Republicans tie the Democrats and knots by going to vote.

Even Barack Obama said that in his speech.

I do have to say, Obama had a funny line, and I'm going to see if I can find it.

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