With control of the Senate hanging in the balance, Georgia’s dual runoff elections in January are taking on outsized influence over the next four years of governing under a newly-elected president.


 More than six weeks into the pair of races, which have enraptured the nation's attention, each party’s heavyweights have hit the stump to gin up their bases, campaign cash continues to flood the state and national forces are shaping the contours of the two contests in the new battleground.


 The Democrats -- Jon Ossoff, a once-unsuccessful congressional candidate and documentary filmmaker, and Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, a prominent Black preacher in the South as the senior pastor of storied Ebenezer Baptist Church -- are attempting to cement Georgia's status as a swing state by securing the narrowest of majorities in the Senate if they can defeat the two GOP incumbents.


I have confidence that smart Georgians will come out and vote for these Dems so we may get our country back on track.