Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein said Tuesday that Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock do not have conflicting messages with President-elect Joe Biden going into Tuesday’s Georgia Senate runoffs.
In recent weeks, the limited amount of polling conducted before the Peach State runoffs has shown both races are tight, with Democrats leading within the margin of error. The president-elect won the state by a razor-thin margin in November, becoming the first Democrat since 1992 to win Georgia.
The races on Tuesday will determine which party controls the Senate. Democrats need to win both seats to take control of the upper chamber with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote.
Bluestien stated that Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R) and David Perdue (R) “should have the inherent advantage going into this.”
“It’s only because of a lot of Trump’s rhetoric, of his conflicting messages telling people to go out and vote in what he calls a rigged election, with all his falsehoods about voting issues and voter fraud, that is making this race closer than the Republicans want it to be.”
Bluestein said he was unsure whether he “buy[s] into that completely,” but noted that “Democrats are energized” and have received no such conflicting messages from Biden.
Watch the full video above.
Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.