The Globe and Mail
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Election Day in Georgia turned out to be Groundhog Day – a virtual repeat of the November presidential race that was too close to call on election night in a bitterly divided electorate.
A repeat performance – once again Georgia provided a huge rebuff to President Donald Trump – with the verdict sending another Democratic shock wave, and two new Democratic senators, to Washington.
Two months ago, the close-call election in the state was a vital building block of president-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, which was on the verge of being confirmed in the Capitol Wednesday before violence disrupted the proceedings. An equally close vote in the Senate runoff in Georgia this week ended the GOP’s control of the Senate and put a sweep of the legislative and executive branches of the American government in the hands of the Democrats.