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5 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
With former Rep. Cleo Fields taking himself out of contention for LA-02, it's likely that Cedric Richmond will be succeeded by another New Orleans-area politician. Fields was viewed as the only Baton Rouge-area pol with enough clout to seriously compete.

theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
LA-02 is heavily gerrymandered to be a vote sink for Black Louisianans. It stretches all the way from New Orleans through the River Parishes to parts of Baton Rouge.

But 78% of the population lives in the New Orleans metro, compared to just 21% in Baton Rouge, per @DKElections.
Subscribers can read more about the coming fight for Richmond's seat here:

insideelections.com/news/article/l…
Fields, of course, is no stranger to gerrymandered districts, having at one point represented this yellow hydra that was eventually struck down by the Supreme Court.
My Spotify shuffle just started playing Allen Touissant while I was writing these tweets.... Big Tech is scary, folks.

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6 Jan
"We will never give up, we will never concede," says President Trump at the rally to overturn the results.
"I hope Mike is gonna do the right thing, I hope so. Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election," says Trump, even though this is false.
"All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify...and we become president, and you are the happiest people," says Trump, spreading disinformation and deluding his followers.
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5 Jan
My first-ever article for IE was on Georgia's Senate races, so it's very full-circle that we closing out the cycle here.

All in all, I've written 19,518 words(!) on Georgia's Senate races, more than any other state.

March 6, my first stab at the special:
insideelections.com/news/article/g…
June 19, my deep dive on the regular election featuring Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff, where I previewed how Ossoff's campaign would be different, and stronger, than his failed 2017 bid for Congress.

insideelections.com/news/article/g…
In November, when it became clear that both races, including the Perdue contest, were headed to runoffs, I took a look back at the history of runoffs in Georgia, and why Democrats thought this time could be different.

insideelections.com/news/article/g…
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5 Jan
"There's no way we lost Georgia," says the president, getting off to a good start.
"I've had two elections. I won both of them, it's amazing. I actually did better in the second one," he continues.
As Trump mentions Kelly Loeffler, a "fight for Trump" chant overtakes the crowd and the president pauses to let it wash over him.
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4 Jan
"We need to send Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue because a Republican senate *could be* the last line of defense" says Mike Pence in Georgia, alluding to the possibility that just maybe Joe Biden might be potentially the next president.
And now a "four more years" chant has broken out.
Pence brings up Dianne Feinstein's "dogma" comments from 2017 as evidence that Democrats are religiously intolerant. "That dogma lives loudly in me," he says.

Comes as Republicans have made Raphael Warnock's preaching the #1 issue in the Senate runoffs.
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24 Dec 20
Jon Ossoff has raised $131,331,281 for his Senate campaign as of December 16. I believe that makes him the biggest fundraiser of any Senate candidate *ever*, surpassing Jaime Harrison's $131,107,396 haul from earlier this year.

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…
To be fair, Ossoff has had an extra two months to raise money because of the runoff.

But boy, has he made use of it. Between 10/15 and 12/16, Ossoff raised $100,400,948. That's a staggering sum of money to raise in such a short period of time.
Harrison holds the record for the biggest 3-month fundraising quarter of any candidate ever, with $57 million in Q3 of 2020. It's not apples-to-apples, but Ossoff did nearly double that in just two-thirds the time.
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11 Dec 20
SCOTUS denies Texas’s suit to overturn the election in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Justices Thomas and Alito would have heard the case.

Joe Biden is still the winner of the election, and the president-elect.
It’s been over for quite some time now, but that hasn’t stopped most of the GOP from mobilizing to try and overturn the results of the election. I doubt SCOTUS’s actions here will change that.

64% of the House GOP caucus signed onto this suit. Over a dozen state AGs.
Most importantly, Trump is nowhere near conceding. He will latch onto the next pale imitation of a deus ex machina and Newsmax/OANN etc will follow along. Just like they did for every lawsuit up until now, each of which was supposed to be “the big one” that would ensure victory.
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