back in 2021, after democrats won both of georgia s run-off elections and with them the u.s. senate majority, georgia republicans fought like hell to prevent that from ever happening again. passing an anti-voter law to make it harder to vote, including during run-offs. once again, a pivotal georgia senate race is heading to a run-off between raphael warnock and herschel walker. there will only be four weeks between the run-off, which means less time to vote early in person and tight windows for ballots. early voting will be barred on one of the saturdays before the final run-off voting day because state law prohibits in-person early voting on saturdays if a holiday is within two days beforehand. those holidays are thanksgiving, but also, get this, a state holiday created to honor confederate general slave holder and racist icon robert e. lee, with voters, especially black
planning on holding leadership elections this wednesday despite calls to postpone from a handful of republicans that want to wait until georgia s run-offs. senator lindsey graham tweeting this. all republicans should be focused on winning in georgia. trying to understand the mid-term elections before senate leadership elections are moving on to the 2024 presidential race. rick scott, the man that was in charge of winning a republican senate majority, he was on sunday morning futures this weekend pointing the finger at senate leadership. we didn t have a plan. i mean, because leadership said no, we re not going to have a plan. we have to come together as a caucus, not vote with the democrats. senator pat toomey is laying the blame squarely on former president trump. the more candidates were associated with donald trump and the ultra maga movement and, you know, the false notion that the
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to make on this is about timing. we had a run-off or run offs here in georgia the last time around after the last election. there were two runs off then and two months to campaign. this time it s only this race and the next election day if you will is less than a month away. back to you guys. steve: connell, quick question for you. i saw that apparently a number of people around donald trump are encouraging him to delay his big announcement next week until after that run off, speaking of timing. do we know whether or not the former president is going to do that? we do not. as we know as of now, there is still that announcement set for next week from the former president in mar-a-lago. but, you are right, that has come from a number of big officials in the party. both on and off the record saying that maybe it wouldn t be the best idea timing wise to do it right now with this runoff come up. but, you remember, as you guys remember the last time around, the former president who was t