November of 2020, there were 50 Republican senators and 48 Democrats. But there were two races in Georgia where there had to be run-off elections because no candidate had gotten 50%+1 of the votes cast on election day (as required by Georgia law). In both races, the Republican candidate got more votes than the Democratic candidate on election day, but the Republican had not gotten 50%+1. So there were going to be two run-off elections on January 5, 2021. The Democrats won run-offs, thus giving the Democrats a 50-50 “majority” in the Senate because of Vice President Kamala Harris.
But what if Donald Trump, instead of going down to Georgia in December of 2020 in a snit and complaining he had been cheated out of the election and saying there was no way any Republican would be allowed to win anywhere, even in Georgia1; what if President Trump had gone to Georgia in December of 2020 and tried to rally Republicans to vote for the Republican Senate candidates, telling his supporters that they needed to get out and vote so we could keep the Democrats from controlling the Senate?2 And what if, therefore, even one of the Republicans had won? The Republicans would have controlled the Senate. But what more might have happened?
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