Tuesday on Political Rewind: Statewide runoff elections might demonstrate just how much power Trump has in Georgia. Brad Raffensperger is expected to testify in front of the January 6th committee today, alongside a Fulton County election worker accused of fraud by Trump allies.
Monday on Political Rewind: On the last day of campaigning before the runoffs, our panel looks at key contests statewide. Plus, after several controversies, Herschel Walker's campaign remains unscathed.
In Georgia's newly drawn 6th Congressional District, the question won't be if voters will elect a conservative politician come November, but which one.
City Council President Felicia Moore and City Councilmember Andre Dickens will face each other in a runoff after emerging as the top two candidates in Atlanta’s mayoral race — with Dickens edging out former mayor Kasim Reed.
Fulton County's elections board recertified its runoff results Tuesday morning after discovering two precincts in Milton were not tabulated completely, as the secretary of state's certified victories in the runoffs for both U.S. Senate seats and a Public Service Commission race.
Monday on Political Rewind: The weekend brought growing calls for President Donald Trump’s removal from office in the aftermath of the assault on the U.S. Capitol. Meanwhile, as Georgia legislators begin their 2021 General Assembly session today, state Republicans face a reckoning. How will they come together to heal the bitter divide between those who supported Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election and Republicans like the governor, who pushed back against the president?
In this bonus episode recorded for GPB's Georgia Today podcast, host Stephen Fowler talks about coming to terms with a historic week for Georgia, and for America.
What a week. Somewhere between the president's call to Brad Raffensperger on Saturday and the seething and lawless mob in our nation's capitol on Wednesday, Georgia hosted a momentous election. On this week's Georgia Today, host Steve Fennessy talks with GPB political reporter Stephen Fowler on coming to terms with a historic week for Georgia, and for America.
With most of Georgia's votes counted in the Jan. 5 runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are leading the Republican incumbents above the .5% margin for a recount, according to unofficial election results.
Wednesday on Political Rewind: The Rev. Raphael Warnock has been elected the first African American U.S. senator from Georgia. His victory over Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler puts the Democratic Party within one seat of capturing a majority in the Senate. Now, the focus turns to the race between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican incumbent David Perdue, where Ossoff holds a small but potentially unbroachable lead over the state’s senior senator.
Wednesday on Political Rewind: A methodical study of 15,000 Cobb County absentee ballot signatures by state law enforcement and election officials failed to turn up a single instance of fraud, according to the Secretary of State’s office. President Donald Trump and his Georgia supporters have argued for weeks that fraudulent absentee ballots contributed to his loss here.
On this episode of the Battleground: Ballot Box podcast, we take a step back from all the voting chaos — sort of — and talk with someone who represents the future generation of voting and political participation.
The Trump administration has made sweeping cuts to environmental regulations — and now the incoming Biden administration is expected to reverse them. But those changes won’t happen overnight. GPB’s Emily Jones reports on the Georgia issues waiting in limbo while the wheels of federal government turn.
