fresh off the press the fox news
decision desk can now project that
georgia democrat rafael warnock will
unseat republican senator kelly loffler
giving democrats a 49 senate seat and
keeping alive democratic hopes
of taking control of the chamber
provided warnock's democrat colleague
john ossoff can defeat republican david
perdue
the purdue offsuff race as of right now
is still too close to call right let's
bring back in the panel i want to get
reaction all around
judy break it down what does this mean
big news
well i this is this is a good night for
president biden it's a good night for
democrats
we still have the second race
outstanding
but it looks as if joe biden is going to
be in a better position to accomplish at
least
some of his agenda than he was at the
beginning of today
look i think that the race and will
no later after we have a chance to
interview
georgia voters but it seems to me that
the president really undermined
republicans in georgia he undermined the
two candidates
by basically putting them in a very
difficult position
and by his call to the georgia election
officials 18 calls before the election
official finally responded
if you've listened at all to that tape
it was kind of shocking
an appeal and an almost mafia dawn-like
fashion no pun intended to get
the votes that weren't there for
republican candidates
and i think that voters were turned off
by this despite the huge amount of money
that was spent on this election in
political advertising
all right let's talk about the balance
of power brad
so now with the addition of i guess
senator elect
reverend warnock we've got 49 seats to
the democrats
50 seats to the republicans that
outstanding race the
ossoff purdue race at this hour still
unknown
does this shift anything around even
right now in the immediate
i don't think so i think all eyes are on
on purdue's race
if we're able to hold the majority the
majority is the one that controls
uh the agenda in the senate the
chairmanships
um so i think even a one-seat majority
is a majority and there's a tremendous
amount of power
and leverage that goes along with that
of course if we lose that
there's still a 50 50 senate
with kamala harris coming in to break a
tie so i don't think that
joe biden is in any better shape
with one than he would with with two uh
there's still
a a break if you will on the power and
restraint
that the senate will have over the
administration
sean i know this is not the news you
were hoping for on the first race
but talk to me about you know now that
we can kind of start doing a post-mortem
at least on this one race
talk to me about where you think some of
the log jams were i mean a lot of
republicans
you know voters and lawmakers really
thought that president trump
rallying in dalton monday night
was going to help carry both these
candidates across the finish line
people at that rally were pumped up i
remember steve harrigan reporting live
from the rally as it was going on saying
he has never seen
trump supporters angrier more fired up
more ready to get out and vote
what happened yeah listen i think that
um
you know democrats obviously had a good
night i think when we do the post-mortem
you're going to see that
there was a massive african-american
voter turnout
uh which was huge for for reverend
warnock
and i think if my number's right i think
it was a 30 increase
from the november election that's made
up a margin that i think democrats had
about 90
turnout of the november election and
republicans might have been slightly
less than that and i think that's going
to be the story
uh that's written here and i think you
know president trump did a great job
that you needed his voters to come out
and and support these two senate
candidates
um and obviously they did but in the war
not grace lawful race they didn't come
out of the numbers that were needed i
would just note that republicans again
normally do very well in these runoffs
it'll be interesting to see how the
purdue race goes uh the purdue name
is like the gold standard in georgia
sunny perdue who was
a democrat state senator and then was
republican governor and now is the
secretary of agriculture
a lot of democrats like him so he he has
a little extra win to his back compared
to
kelly lawler um it's going to be
interesting and i know it's tight yeah
well panel thanks so much we'll check
back in with you again later in the hour
stick but stick with us stand by we have
just learned that
rafael warnock has unseated senator
kelly lafl