ossoff. that is a 24-point advantage. back in november perdue's advantage was more narrow than that with seniors. he won them by 16 points. here's what is key. they only made up 19% of the electorate in november. it's up seven points as a share of the electorate. that is a good sign for perdue. take a look at younger voters. jon ossoff performs much better with younger voters this time around than in november. he wins them overwhelmingly 67% to 33%. that is a 34-point margin. in november he won by 11 points. here is the problem. there are fewer of them. back then it was 20% of the electorate. 19%. now it's 13% of the electorate. look at independents. david perdue is performing better in the run-off among independents than he did in november. now he gets 48% of them. he got 43% in november. ossoff about the same as he was in november with independents 52%. and suburbanites, we talk about the suburbs all the time. georgia is almost one big suburb in many respects. 61% of the electorate lives in

ossoff also won 91% of them. i mean it is an overwhelmingly democratic county so that pushed the warnock lead up to a full point statewide, over 40,000 votes. it just reached the point where there's no conceivable way kelly loeffler will catch raphael warnock and warnock will be clear. we can show you on the statewide result, will be clear of it looks like the recall -- i say recall. recount. if you are within half a s poin statewide there could be a recount. it is now up to a full point.nt there are still votes left to be counted, reported out in dekalb county, maybe coming overnight. any votes that comee out of dekalb county still -- and there's more than 10,000 of them, are only going to pad warnock's lead over loeffler. also in theve other race you mentioned, it vaulted -- that update from dekalb county it vaulted jon ossoff ahead of davidos perdue, now 3,560 vote lead for ossoff over perdue. this is where it gets critical. we know warnock has won the first race, the only question is the margin. what about th

ossoff, you just saw it -- put it up there again, ossoff is as well. democrats, the opportunity is there. the opportunity, i'm just checking to see if we've got any more. we've got half of cobb county in right now. a target for democrats here, 56.3 is the biden number. you see ossoff is -- if half the vote is in, ossoff is getting a margin now of 40,000 votes over david perdue. if that pace continues, and it probably won't, it will probably come down some, but you can see in the remaining vote in cobb county just given the size of it and given democrats are going to win this county, just a question of how much, you certainly see the of ossoff to outpace perdue by tens of thousands of votes in what is left to come in cobb county. that is equally more true for warnock over loeffler, warnock outpacing even ossoff right now. that's an example. cobb county, democrats can net quite a bit out of there. dekalb county, look at this. you've got 120,000 votes, about 125,000, a little bit less than that, that have been counted so far. this is going to be an 80% pl

jon ossoff got 763. that means the percent of the votes that came in were about 60% for perdue and about 40% for jon ossoff. you're going to say wait a second, this is fulton county, one of the most democratic counties in the state. true. but these could be republican precincts. don lemon can tell you there are republican presipcincts in that area. that's why we're not calling the state, despite the fact we think much of the remaining vote the democratic and jon ossoff could take the lead soon, we haven't called because the precincts haven't come in. >> you were talking about the experience of being in there and obviously the representation of the african-american vote today is going to be a huge part of the headline. it's not over yet but they've already made their stand. >> and i have the perfect person to talk to about that. i i want to bring in newly elected congresswoman nikema williams of georgia, also picking up the late congressman john lewis' seat, the fifth district of georgia. thank you so muc

ahead of jon ossoff. ossoff is trailing perdue in the statewide count by just over 1,300 votes right now. it's a situation right now where ossoff is looking to the outstanding votes to leapfrog perdue, and to try to get ahead. and the question of, will it be one 0.5%, then this could go to a recount that could delay it a little bit. but that's the story in the ossoff race. in the warnock race, warnock is looking to the outstanding votes to try to build on his lead he has over loeffler. so where are the remaining votes? this is the biggest one, the biggest source of votes by far that's left. about 20,000 votes, a little bit less in dekalb county. you can see how the votes have come in, warnock is getting 83% 2%, ossoff is getting 82.5%. one of the biggest democratic counties in the state of georgia. there are just under 20,000 votes to come in. they're early votes, votes cast by people, in person, early. it's a democratic county, and that's a democratic group of votes. we expect the almost 20,000 votes to

ossoff finally has the lead. again, dekalb county probably about 12,000 votes left to come in dekalb county. we expect them like we saw, probably about 90% democratic. it's a reasonable expectation when call of the vote comes in from dekalb county, again that may be happening sometime in the overnight hours, that margin from the vote in dekalb county can climb over 10,000 votes sta statewide. maybe 12,000 votes. there's dekalb here and fulton. this is atlanta. atlanta area, this is the biggest county in the state. they have all of the votes that we're ghasting for election day counted. all of the early votes counted. the only thing left in fulton county 7500 mail ballots. and we talked to officials in the last hour, they told us they are not going to be released. the numbers from the 7500 mail ballots will not be about announced until later today and tomorrow afternoon. it's going to be a while. we know what they are. they are mail ballots in an overwhelmingly democratic county. you can certainly expect these are

i want to talk about jon ossoff. here we go. let me talk about jon ossoff. let me clear this out one more time. again, you can see, he is leading by 16,000 votes at this point. donald trump made a last-minute visit to georgia to this county right here, to whitfield county. you can see jon ossoff didn't do well there. he got crushed, 70% to 21%. but there's no real sign that trump's visit did much to gin up the republican vote. you can see, roughly the same percentage in the presidential election there. i am told we are now joined by the senator-elect from the state of georgia, raphael warnock. reverend warnock, thank you so much for being with us. congratulations. we heard you overnight noting the fact that your 82 mother, whose hands picked someone else's cotton, you said, got to cast her vote for her son to be senator of the state of georgia. what was that moment like when the state was called for you? >> good morning, listen, this is a wonderful day here in georgi,. and i believe, in america. i am an iteration and an example of the american dream. i spoke

ossoff leading 50.2 to 49.8%. back in november nobody got over 50 but perdue was the one who was afraid of ossoff. so this has changed. okay. it has changed in just a few weeks. gabe, what happened? who is responsible? >> the president of the united states is 100% four square responsible sw a little added assist from doug collins who decided to run in the senate jungle primary which split the party. i mean, when you tell people your vote didn't count, this is all part of crazy town and people are stealing things, you undermine people's confidence in the vote, then you create a civil war at a gop at a time when the gop probably wanted to unite their vote to turn out. those are the kind of things that the president is solely responsible for doing. >> so, gabe, you are a life-long republican, you are working with secretary of state lifelong republican, governor of the state lifelong republican. georgia is a state that six weeks ago everybody would have said is a red state, now all of a sudden it went for biden and ov

and how about jon ossoff? what's his identity? that's not an easy question to answer when the sum total of your personal achievements could fit comfortably in the ashtray of a sports car. at various points, ossoff has claimed he once worked as a senior national security staffer on capitol hill, which is pretty funny because in fact ossoff was what is called him washington a legislative correspondent. that job consist mostly of responding to letters from constituents. in other words, he was the male boy. and not in a very impressive office either. jon ossoff works for a georgia congressman called hank johnson, who is easily hands-down, ask anybody in washington the single dumbest member of congress and that's saying a lot. back in 2010, just in case you think we are overstating the case, johnson, in a hearing which was on television, asked a navy admiral with deep concern whether the island of guam, which is an island, not a floating platform, might capsize if too many troops were moved onto a base there. watch this tape, you'll se

jon ossoff, the democrat, has a lead of 17,000 votes. what we're waiting on is some counties in georgia still have mail-in ballots, vote-by-mail ballots to be reported out. for instance, right here in the atlanta and immediate atlanta area there are about 30,000 of them across these full counties, about 30,000 we think mail ballots that they have to tabulate and report out. but mail ballots in the atlanta metro area in particular, a very democratic area, vote-by-mail bol lots tend to be democratic. i think it's very reasonable to expect ossoff will be extremely well with the mail ballots that come from this atlanta metro area. there's also a few thousand to come from the savannah area in chatham county. there's a scattering from elsewhere in the state. there are probably about 8,000 provisional ballots or so. about 17,000 military and overseas ballots. the overseas ballots, the provisional ballots, those are not counted for several days. what you're seeing here in terms of what's left of the mail vote is a clear opportunity for ossoff to

so far, it is jon ossoff,. is jon ossoff with 55%, 44% for david perdue. aree can see more results coming in from the minute. as you pointed out, the lead so far keeps increasing. there are the numbers right there. and% from a file warnock 46% for kelly loeffler. warnock and 46% for kelly loeffler. our producers are always updating election developments online. we have our team working on it. you can find it right now on wsbtv.com. >> take a look at this. incredible access for you here. you're looking live at where election workers are counting ballots inside the georgia world congress center. stay with us, as the runoff results unfold throughout the night. announcer: you have been tvtching live coverage of wsb- in atlanta here on c-span, as the results come in for the georgia u.s. senate runoff elections between republican senators, david perdue and jon ossoff, and kelly loeffler and rough file warnock -- raphael warnock. we will return to the broadcast shortly. ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal, every day we take your calls live on the air on th

where the votes are still outstanding seem to be very favorable to jon ossoff. so i don't think it's a precipitous claim to say that we'll have two georgia democratic senators.

all eyes are on the race between john ossoff and david purdue. joining me with reaction is jeremy hunt, thanks for being here. let's pull up the race as it stands, we are looking at john ossoff and david purdue, that races yet to be called. the other when i was mentioning, rafael warnock and kelly left, rafael warnock making history as the first black georgia senator, projected to win the race. your overall reaction? >> i am disappointed. i think america will see what many of us have been warning about, we are going to witness how far left the democratic party has come, control of the house, the senate and the white house, and cultural influence, the left controls hollywood, the media, academia, the left has such a stronghold so we are going to see very distorted vision for america codified into law, this whole rhetoric about unity, wanting to work across the aisle was a sham, they never work with republicans. jillian: about georgia specifically, what stacy abrams has been making in the black community for years, have republicans done enough and

perdue is invid the recount gap with jon ossoff. if jon ossoff does better, as is widely presumed, and that gap is a little more than the recount, is the real surprise that senator david perdue will graciously step aside given the news flow? early tothink it's too predict that. there is still a process. righthe .4% majority advantage going to jon ossoff, that is within the ability for there to be a recount. i, tom, have talked about this before and i think we are all in agreement. i don't want to get ahead of anything, especially these days in which there is a lot of process playing out. in atlantawilkins and kevin cirilli with the festivities in washington. admit, kevin cirilli sound on on bloomberg radio has been expanded to a six hour program. look for that at 5:00 p.m. tonight to sound off seriously on this most historic day, an important conversation with the people of washington. kevin, thank you. red and green on the screen. nasdaq futures better than they were three hours ago. lisa, francine, megan, whatever it is. lisa: you

steve, control of the senate down to the perdue, ossoff race. ossoff declaring he won. most organizations have not called the race yet. where do we stand? >> it's too close the call. the official designation is ossoff is leading. his margin over perdue sits at 17,000 votes. the vast majority of the vote is in but what we are waiting for? there are a couple of clear pockets. the biggest one is actually i'll show you, it's dekab county. that county has an awful lot to do with why ossoff leads right now. this is an overwhelmingly democratic county. outside atlanta. 80 % plus democratic county. overnight, it was the release of the early vote that came out that pushed ossoff ahead state-wide. the early vote is all done in dekalb county. it looks like a number of mail-in ballots need to be processed there. could be up to 20,000 of those mail-in ballots from that county. again, you can expect them to be overwhelmingly democratic. so that's mail votes from dekalb county. there are also mail votes next door in fulton county. in the last couple minutes we got a small release of t

senator ossoff. >> thank you, leader schumer. it's great to be alongside you, senator reverend warnock. the message today for georgia families is very simple. $8200 of additional federal financial relief to help see you and your kids to this pandemic will be included in the senate legislation that we're working to pass right now. $8200 for a family of four in georgia earning $75,000. senator reverend warnock and i were sending to fight for covid relief for the people of our state who have had to face extraordinary childcare costs, as schools have been closed, who have that huge medical bills during this health crisis, , who have seen loss of employment and severe financial distress. families have been facing eviction and foreclosure. we came here to deliver help for the people of georgia, and working with leader schumer and colleagues, senator reverend warnock and i are here to inform the people of georgia that we are working to advance this legislation which will deliver $8200 in additional federal relief in coming months for an

the democrat jon ossoff is in the lead. if democrats can sweep, they will win control of the senate and the entire federal government in the process. we've got the one and only steve kornacki at the big board. where else? and shaquille brewster in atlanta. steve, where do they stand out in? you've been up -- start with this. when was the last time you went to bed? >> got about 75 minutes of sleep overnight. this was a different than november -- it's been different, stephanie, because we've had more votes counted in georgia earlier, in november it wasn't until four, five days after election day we had enough to make a call in georgia. one of these two senate races, you mentioned, raphael warnock declared the winner against pointed incumbent kelly loeffler. the question, how big is that lead, that margin going to get for raphael warnock? you mentioned, a key step for jon ossoff taken a moment ago. our characterization, decision desk characterization of this race no longer just too close to call, too close to call but ossoff i

where the votes are still outstanding seem to be very favorable to jon ossoff. so i don't think it's a precipitous claim to say that we'll have two georgia democratic senators. >> we can talk about what that means from a governing perspective, but before we get to the governing, you've got to get through what's happening today. of course in the halls of the building behind me here, in the

nice throw by jon ossoff. getting mike garcia as he hustles down to first to finally end the inning. the republicans put five on the board here in the bottom of the first inning. to lead the democrats now 5-3. everybody is excited. you're watching the congressional baseball game. >> the congressional baseball game is under way here at nationals park in washington, d.c. an annual tradition that goes all the way back to 1909 bringing together lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, playing on behalf of local d.c. area charities. on air commentary comes courtesy of wtop radio. we expect the game to resume shortly. a reminder that if you can't be in front of your television, you can still follow every minute on the go with c-span now. that's our new video app that's free to download on your mobile device. >> we head to the second inning. i don't know how much more exciting we can get here folks. republicans put five on the board, lead it 5-3. pete aguilar was at the plate when the last inning ended. he'll get a fr

the lead for ossoff sits at 16,370 points. that is 4/10 of 1 point. ossoff over perdue. a couple things to keep in mind. the recount threshold in georgia, a candidate needs to be within 1/2 of 1% in order to request a recount. if perdue falls short and within 1/2%, he could have a recount at that point. i point out that .4 because we're getting close to the threshold of .5. what we saw happen overnight happened in slow motion, around 11:00 last night, dekalb county here, a little bit of atlanta, right around atlanta, we knew there was going to be a major drop of vote overnight. all of the early vote that was cast in dekalb county was going to come overnight. it came in three or four increments overnight, the last one a little after 4 had a.m. you can see how heavily democratic this is, the installments that were coming overnight, 80, 85, 90% democratic. what that did is put ossoff in the early morning hours, he was trailing in the count over perdue, the dekalb vote lifted ossoff to the lead over perdue, and allowed warnock to move it to a 50,000 vote advantage. ossoff at

in georgia, democrat raphael warnock defeats republican kelly loeffler, and jon ossoff currently leads republican david purdue. the gop could lose control of the senate. beijing tightens its grip. hong kong police arrest around 50 people, including a prominent american lawyer. it's the biggest crackdown yet under china's controversial national security law. and boris johnson says one person in every 50 in england has covid-19. it comes as chancellor angela merkel tightens germany's lockdown to contain the outbreak. good morning and welcome to "bloomberg surveillance." i'm francine lacqua in london. tom keene is in new york. tom, i know you have the ins and outs of politics of the georgia senate race. i would point to what is happening with treasury. we have some interesting calls not only from columbia threadneedle about the 30 year longer-term but also what could happen to the 10 year treasury in the short term if we do see a blue wave. of: it is a real dovetail the political world into the bloomberg world, no question about that. just the 10-year yield is launched from 1% out to 1.02

and warnock, 96% for ossoff and 96% of warnock. during the campaign, despite warnock had a lot more problems, if you will, than ossoff, but they locked arms and based on the voters came out and voted for them, that seems to have worked. all eyes, hugo on capitol hill as electoral college certifies votes during joint session of congress, growing number of republican lawmakers in the house and in the senate are said to challenge the certification and president trump is putting pressure on vice president mike pence who will oversee the certification. president trump tweeting this, if vice president mike pence comes through for us, we will win the presidency. many states want to decertify the mistake they made and certifying incorrect or even fraudulent numbers in a process nod approved by the state legislatures which it must be. mike can send it back. the wall street journal has a theory editorial on this this morning. what's your take? hugo: yeah, look, this is a complete fantasy by the president. the result is not going to be overtu

also with jon ossoff. the first jewish senator from georgia, he will be the youngest senator by almost ten years and, you know, he ran an almost flawless campaign. so this is a real leader for the future and going to be hearing a lot about jon ossoff in the years ahead. >> not everybody would have known he was jewish if perdue hadn't sort of gone at him with a few anti-semitic ads that caused him to actually come out and discuss it. an interesting way to get about figuring something out about someone. jameill, one of the things that would have kept the democratic party, which has its own issues united, was facing a united republican senate. what happens now if it becomes 50/50? we're not there yet. we don't know what will happen with ossoff and perdue. he's leading right now, but it's not called. so it could be a 50/50 senate in which case democrats have control. does that cause the democratic party a couple more problems because it's got to actually now decide on its priorities because it's going to pass

jon ossoff is leading over david purdue. ossoff needs to win his race to give the democrarats control of the senate. the chamber would be 50/50 and kamala harris would cast the deciding vote as vice president. i think the only prediction we can depend on now is that it is going to be a long night into the morning. sl we hea have we heard from the candidates yet? >> we have heard from one. i want to tell you about david purdue and kelly loeffler. they have not conceded. jon ossoff hasn't spoken. raphael warnock did speak from his home. he said tonight that it proved with hope, hard work and people by his side that anything is possible. >> georgians flocked to the polls on tuesday. >> you can't complain if you don't vote. >> two elections that could shift the balance of power. >> god gave us a voice to be heard. >> cbs projects raphael warnock has beaten kelly loeffler thanks to strong support for black and young voters. >> i am going to the senate to work for all georgia. >> it is worth it for this election to last into tomor

we obviously have not called the second senate race, the ossoff race. and therefore have not called control of the senate. but can you walk us through what remaining ballots are left to be counted and what folks on the ground are telling you about what to expect from them? >> reporter: yeah, good morning, kasie. well, according to a county spokesperson for fulton county we're expecting about 4,000 remaining absentee ballots to be counted. they worked into the night until about 2:00 a.m. and put out a statement saying they will resume counting the absentee ballots, about 4,000, out of fulton county starting at 8:00 a.m. this morning. fulton county, of course, a heavily democratic county. that is said to assist or boost rafaphael warnock and jon ossof. and we also saw a technical error, with 18,000 ballots having to be manually rescanned. that vote came in throughout the night as they started to rescan those ballots. there was a technical error with the usb drive upload the results. they may get more. dekalb county was the county that pushed everything ov

look at the senate race, ossoff/perdue race, ossoff 81, perdue 17. if you're the democrats, you look at dekalb county, you say, wow, we're doing what we need to do. georgia has 139 counties. don't get caught up in what you might hear from any one county. our correspondents on the ground are also telling us that in forsythe county, turnout is up today, exceeding what happened in november. election day turnout. look, jon ossoff got swamped in forsythe county. this is a place that is absolutely critical for republican turnout. we can look at the presidential race. it's the same thing, two to one for donald trump. turnout is up here too. it may be that both parties are turning out their voters. we've also heard and showed some pictures earlier today, we don't know the final numbers yet, but you saw pictures on tv of long lines in cherokee county. is the trump base turning out? is this divide among republicans impacting republican turnout? cherokee county is a place where we'll see. that's how it played out in the presidential race, it was so close, the p

that race between jon ossoff and david perdue, currently jon ossoff is leading by 16,000 votes, it's very tight. this comes on the heels of a historic victory for democrats here with reverend raphael warnock set to become the state's first black senator. this morning democrats one step closer to taking control of the u.s. senate. abc news now projects democratic challenger reverend raphael warnock will defeat republican incumbent senator kelly loeffler in one of georgia's runoff races. >> every day i'm in the united states senate i will fight for you. >> reporter: warnock is a prominent black preacher at ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. a pulpit that once belonged to dr. martin luther king junior. warnock acknowledged his historic role as georgia's first elected black senator. >> i come before you tonight as a man who knows the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in america could only happen here. >> reporter: it's a opponent a staunch ally of president trump not giving in. >> we have a path to victory, we're staying on it. that's right. >> reporte

you saw the biggest break between biden and between ossoff. it is the question or one of the key questions, andrea, for today. those voters who in november said i don't like donald trump, i don't want to vote for donald trump, i will check off joe biden's name, but i also don't want to vote for democrats for the senate. those voters, no trump on the ballot today, do they still say, not going to vote for democrats, i'm going to vote for these republicans for the senate? or will they say, i still want to vote against trump, he's not on the ballot so all i can do is vote against his party? that's what democrats are hoping for, because that small but critical chunk of swing voters could make the difference between biden carrying the state narrowly and democrats falling short, which is what happened in the preliminary. >> and we've heard so much about the early vote, the large number, more than 3 million voting early, and a large percentage being black, young voters, tend to be more democratic. but day-of voters tend to be more republican. is that

for more on that, i'm joined by georgia senator jon ossoff. i understand you were critical about rivian building a plant in georgia. senator ossoff: there are a lot of folks who deserve credit for this. i was involved earlier this year in the effort to broker a settlement between sk innovation and lg over electric vehicle battery intellectual property. that dispute threatened sk's 2.6 billion dollar battery plant in commerce, georgia, which is the largest foreign direct investment in georgia's history. with you and i alone -- lithium-ion batteries and electric vehicle batteries, being very heavy, when you have a major manufacturing facility for the batteries in your state, you are a much more attractive site for investment for the automotive manufacturers. georgia is rapidly becoming a world leading hub in renewable energy, clean tech, and electric vehicles. we have, as i mentioned, that battery production facility with thousands of jobs in commerce, georgia. a little known fact is georgia hosts the largest solar module production facility in

john ossoff and ralfael warnock. i beat ossoff once. he was at 57 and i got involved. we drove him down to 49. he ended up in a runoff and she won. now i have to beat him a second time. hopefully this will be easy. when you know what he and warnock stands for it should be easy. casting votes to rubber stamp votes for aoc and bernie sanders. what is with stacy abrams? your governor and secretary of state of petrified of say stacy abrams? what they have done to your state. that consent degree of these two people. i don't know. they say they are republicans. they can't be. why wouldn't they let us have a special session? if they want to check signatures in fulton county. not in cobb county. they did cobb and never got to fulton? why wouldn't they do that? that's a positive thing. the democrats want to turn america -- will be here in a year and a half campaigning against you governor, i guarantee you. >> [cheers and applause]. >> i should not say this. because i don't want you to tell anybody outside of this room other than the millions of people. i endorsed him. he was in

in the november election, jon ossoff got 100,000 fewer votes than joe biden. i believe raphael warnock at 800,000 fewer votes than joe biden. so, some ways, this is a test and does joe biden have any coattails? we did not see in november. a lot of people down ballot voted republican. i think this will test that. i was very stunned by how brief his appearance was today. 10 minutes at a rally and so forth. i think again their appeal is less that joe needs the help in washington then we've got to give donald trump another defe defeat. >> bret: your thoughts? >> that's interesting. joe biden did not have any coattails and it will be interesting to see if he can grow some. once again, we are having an election that's all about donald trump. the big question now is, can trump feud with the governor and the secretary of state of georgia, will that depress republican turnout? he not only said the election in georgia was fraudulent and he actually won, he said that the senatorial election of georgia were "illegal and illegitimate." that's the question. will he suppress

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when it comes to jon ossoff, challenging the incumbent david perdue, as it stands now jon ossoff has the lead with 52%, an d senator david perdue with almost 2.2 million votes, coming in at 49.8%. that's the state of that race. we showed you raphael warnock being called to win in his race against kelly loeffler. all that playing out today, as it turns out the counting of the electoral college votes, which some have mentioned this morning and you can watch on c-span. and the two senators he may see make comments throughout the day putting all beds in the -- putting all beds in the papers -- op eds in the paper saying why they are doing it. talking about serious allegations of fraud. specifically the elections of three states, florida, louisiana and south carolina, allegged to have been conducted illegally, going on to say that we should follow the president, congress should appoint an electoral commission, a full investigatory and fact-finding authority to bring forth an audit of those disputed states. accordingly, we intend to vote on january 6 to reject the electors in the disputed

that was jon ossoff's first statement since he has taken the lead in that race. he is now up something like 16,300 plus votes. joining us now cnn white house correspondent john harwood, lat is that brown, the co-founder of black voters matter, also with us cnn political commentator van jones. van, cnn has not called the race for ossoff but he sure sounds like he knows he's headed to washington. he was speaking as if it was a foregone conclusion and thanking the people of georgia. give us your thoughts this morning. >> democracy is working. democracy is working. this is what's supposed to happen. you had a government that had a failed response to a national catastrophe, you have a president who has been trying to break every rule, every norm and a bunch of laws, and the system is responding. you will have a new president and you will have a new congress to try to fix what's broken. but for me as a southerner, i grew up in tennessee, to see a southern state send a young jewish reporter and a black pastor to represent georgia, you can't get away from the history of

you know, you wonder what the next few years looks like in jon ossoff is to win. again, that race still too close to call. are you surprised that this is where we are this morning? >> no. because i think everyone understood that this was almost a second presidential election. it was going to determine the biden presidency and how much pushback they would get from congress. so that doesn't surprise me. and people have been pounding on the theme since november. the again, it's going to be a very different washington whether chuck schumer or mitch mcconnell is in charge of the senate. it kind of refutes what you are saying. refutes the old tipp o'neal idea. all politics is local. the georgiaens understood all their votes in this election were national. todd: interesting. meantime as we have talked about all morning long, mail-in ballots once again playing a huge role in all of this. should we have a better, quicker system in place not just at the state level but nationally? i understand that state legislatures control their voting rules but still we need to have a be

and ignore the jon ossoff crisis. this is clearly a pattern of activity from the chinese communist party. they identified him as an ambitious young politician on the democratic side that they probably could get influence with. so they hired him and he worked for two years for this propaganda company, the chinese communist party. he might not have won that primary had he fully disclosed that. he got caught. he then disclosed it. lied about it and lied about it again. and he still didn't answer peter's question if you noticed he never has answered that question. jedediah: yeah, that nonanswer by ossoff sounds very, very familiar. actually sounds just like joe biden oh come on, man. that's a strategy. and i think that ossoff is looking at joe biden and saying well he got away about it. he was asked repeatedly about packing the court asked about whether it be the hunter biden scandal scandal or whatever it be he shrugged those things off and got away with it. maybe he thinks he doesn't have to answer these questions eithe

take a look at perdue versus ossoff in november. the first thing you notice is perdue outpolled jon ossoff by more than a point. 88,000 votes. even as the democrats are winning the presidential race by about 12,000, they're falling 88,000 short of the republican incumbent in the preliminary vote. one thing to look for is the pool or voters -- it's a small but potentially decisive votes, they split their tickets and voted for biden and then david perdue or voted for republicans in the preliminary race. what do they do? do they want to vote republican in the senate races? or do they view tonight's election as a referendum on how trump handled the last two months and the november election results in fact that's one thing to look for. from the democrat's standpoint, what they think they may have changed from the november election. a place like doherty county. southwest georgia, large black population, core democratic population. higher turnout in places like doherty county. a lot of rural counties in the belt of the state right here whe

ossoff: that is right. the president had 60 days from the international trade commission's judgment to determine whether or not he was going to veto the itc's ruling. that put the administration in the unenviable position of having to make a choice between the production of strategic technology in the united states, electric vehicle batteries, which are a vital part of our transition to a clean energy future, a geostrategic option, where we face substantial competition with china. and on the other hand, potentially eroding confidence in the intellectual property law in the united states. in order for major industries to undertake research and development, there needs to be confidence that intellectual property law in the united states is robust and enforced. that is why a settlement was a vital and necessary solution. the parties are no longer at odds. a payment has been made from sk to lg. lg withdrew its complaint. the intellectual property law of regime is intact and georgia is going to get these 2600 sk

tonight, democrats raphael warnock and jon ossoff hoping to unseat

the race between david perdue and jon ossoff is too close to call but ossoff has about a 16,000 vote lead with many more votes yet to be counted. steve: with as you can see in the corner with 99% of the precinct reporting. also the showdown expected to play out today on capitol hill and that's why we are looking at the capitol, ainsley. ainsley: plenty are planning to rally. congress planning to certify the presidential election. i was talking to a georgia voter last night what's happening? i grew up in south carolina. very close it georgia. we also went to atlanta to go to the big city. and it was very conservative. all of that state, remember newt gingrich if he ran today he wouldn't even win he is from cobb county he wouldn't win his district because it's so blue now. and this georgia voter said that even her son is watching. all of these he is 6 years old knows all of these candidates by heart because of all the commercials. even during his cartoons. she said two democratic candidates were invigorating and great on the debate stage. warnock minister at ebenezer baptist church mar

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and you have jon ossoff, who senator perdue in his ads ossoff artificially lengthen his nose, calling it an adjustment act to point out he's jewish. if you can talk first about warnock and who he is -- you did a profile among other places in harper's bazaar, the significance of what he has represented over the years -- grew up in public housing, first to graduate from his family, 11 of 12 kids come his mom picked cotton and then she voted yesterday to pick the next senator from georgia. jon ossoff, who does seem to be leading by 16,000 votes, well more than biden won by in georgia? >> yeah, rev. warnock has been summoned, like i said earlier, has been a community in organizing spaces alongside folks. when i wrote the piece for harper's bazaar, rev. warnock started out as a sexual health educator when he was a teenager working with the department of health. being a pr mentor, he did it also in college. those lessons stayed with him as he became -- what into the ministry and started working in communities. he has had a commitment in terms of making sure his congregation and other folks

senator awsat is next -- center ossoff -- senator ossoff is next. senator ossoff it's working as for the next five minutes. sen. paul: soft -- senator ossoff is recognized for the next five minutes. sen. ossoff: thank you. stepping back, what do you assess to be the most significant systemic threats to financial stability over the medium-term, either limited to the u.s. or globally? chair powell: i would have to say that the thing that worries me the most is really cyber risk. it is a constant concern, and we spent lots of time and resources on it. so does the private sector. but that is the one where we have a playbook for bad lending and bad risk management. we have a lot of capital in the system. but the cyber, as you see with the ransomware issues now, it is just an ongoing race really to keep up. we haven't had to face a significant cyber event from a financial stability standpoint, and i hope we don't come but that is the thing i worry the most about. sen. ossoff: in terms of financial stability following cyber, what next preoccupy zero tensio

all eyes are on ossoff versus purdue. florida republican senator marco rubio putting it in perspective in an opinion article on foxnews.com on monday writing, quote, if democrats are successful in the georgia runoff elections on tuesday house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer will have the power to enact the radical left socialist agenda that has become mainstream in the democratic party. green new deal, socialized medicine, unaccountable bureaucrats in washington, european-style taxes on american industry, radical regulations that will harm small businesses and capitulation to the chinese communist party will all be on the agenda. let's discuss some of that with our next guest, former 2000 a clinton campaign advisor and fox news contributor, lloyd matheson as a republican strategist and former chief of staff utah senator mike lee. thanks for being with us in the we hours of this wednesday morning what do you think of senator rubio's comments? >> i have to start by saying congratulations to sen

to elect 2 individuals who are outstanding leaders in rafael warnock and jon ossoff . i have spent time withthem . we have talked, we have drank together. we have talked about the state of our country, the future of our country,the promise of our country . and they have talked to me about the state of georgia . they had said to me you need to know what'shappening in our state . they said to me these are the needs of the people. these are the needs of the children. these are the needs of small business . these are the needs us small people. these back to these two men are. and look at that in the contextof the history of the state of georgia . look at it in the context of the year where folks were deprived of the right to vote . who were deprived of full status of citizenship. look at it in the history of georgia. where one of the greatest american heroes who was now one of the greatest savanna ancestors, john lewis shared his blood on edmund pettis bridge. a great georgian for the right to vote and he had to shed his blood because the forces were so powerful and violen

ossoff: hello, atlanta. forever i love atlanta. give it up again for my brother, the reverend raphael warnock. [cheers and applause] georgia, it all comes down to this. tomorrow is election day. on eyes of the nation are georgia right now. on eyes of the world are georgia right now. georgia. power, we make history. now, i want you to say it with me now. save vote. -- say vote. say vote. say vote. tomorrow, we make history. and think about how far we have come, atlanta. think about how far we have come in the great state of georgia. think about how far we have come in the american south. is the most competitive battleground state in the united states. you did that. you did that. [cheers and applause] two runoffting elections for the united states senate to determine control of the united states senate. your standardbearers are the young jewish son of an immigrant and a pastor who holds dr. the church.t at think about how far we have come, atlanta. think about how far we have come. -- we are running against are running against like,