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President-elect Joe Biden speaks at a drive-in rally for Georgia Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Turning the page? Republicans acknowledge Biden’s victory

By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press

President-elect Joe Biden speaks at a drive-in rally for Georgia Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Joe Biden goes to bat for Democrats in Georgia runoff races

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President-elect Joe Biden speaks at a drive-in rally for Georgia Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Turning the page? Republicans acknowledge Biden’s victory

By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press

N.C. state Sen. Jeff Jackson is considering US Senate bid

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RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT SPELLING OF PURDUE TO PERDUE - A jet takes off from Valdosta Regional Airport before the start of a rally featuring President Donald Trump for U.S. Senators Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and David Perdue, R-Ga., Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020 in Valdosta, Ga. President Trump’s first political rally since losing the election is meant to boost Republican incumbents campaigning in the two Georgia runoffs that will decide which party controls the Senate. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)

Poll: Most Ga. voters want special session for ballot signature verification

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, with a sign language interpreter to his left, speaks at his latest briefing on COVID-19, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

Edwards fundraises for Democrats in Georgia’s Senate races

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Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Sen. Kelly Loeffler speaks at a campaign rally on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Cumming, Ga. Loeffler and Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock are in a runoff election for the Senate seat in Georgia. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Loeffler to return to campaign after negative COVID-19 test

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence is greeted by U.S. Senator Kelley Loeffler as he arrives at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Ga., Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Loeffler has negative COVID-19 test 2 days after positive

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Illustration on a one party government by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Democrats’ one-party control would be a disaster for America

By Adam Goodman

A jogger carries a Vote! flag as he passes a polling station, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Hegar concedes Senate race to Cornyn; Trump doctor wins seat

By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2020, file photo, shows Merav Ben-David poses for a photo in Cheyenne, Wyo. Ben-David is seeking to become Wyoming's first Democratic senator in a near-half century. Ben-David and her Republican opponent, Cynthia Lummis, are vying for Wyoming's first open Senate seat in more than two decades and a chance to be the state's first female senator. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)

Vastly different candidates vie for Wyoming US Senate seat

By NICK REYNOLDS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2020 file photo Democratic challenger John Hickenlooper, front, talks during a debate with Republican U.S. Senator Cory Gardner during a debate between the candidates in Fort Collins, Colo. Democrats seeking to pick up senate seats in Montana and Colorado are painting their opponents as a threat to the undeveloped public lands for which the two Rocky Mountain states are known. (Bethany Baker File)/The Coloradoan via AP, File)

Dems keep focus on public lands despite GOP legislative win

By MATTHEW BROWN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI - Associated Press

Florida, butt of election jokes, believes system is ready

By TERRY SPENCER - Associated Press

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jaime Harrison speaks at a campaign rally on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

In South, most Black Senate candidates since Reconstruction

By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press

Marquita Bradshaw, the Tennessee Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, speaks before a Power Together Women's March Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Dozens of Women's March rallies were planned from New York to San Francisco to signal opposition to President Donald Trump and his policies, including the push to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before Election Day. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Biden endorses Tennessee’s Democratic Senate candidate

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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., speaks during a hearing with the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/New York Times, Pool via AP)

Analysis: Mississippi US Senate race draws outside attention

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, speaks to Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Democrats make fools of themselves at Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing

By Tammy Bruce

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2020, file photo, Sen. Steve Daines, R- Mont., speaks to a crowd of supporters at a Republican campaign rally in Belgrade, Mont. Incumbent Republican Daines faces off Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in the last of three debates against his Democratic opponent, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, in a race that is among the GOP-held seats in states won by President Trump in 2016 that Democrats think they have a chance to flip in November. (AP Photo/Tommy Martino, File)

Daines, Bullock clash over pandemic, Supreme Court in debate

By IRIS SAMUELS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2018 file photo Rev. Raphael Warnock speaks at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Former President Barack Obama is endorsing Warnock in the race to fill a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia. Warnock is one of the Democrats running in a crowded field for the special election to be held Nov. 3, 2020. The seat is currently held by Republican Kelly Loeffler, a wealthy businesswoman who was appointed earlier this year by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Obama endorses Warnock in crowded Georgia Senate race

By BEN NADLER - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, walks to his office from the Senate floor, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kentucky Democrats outpacing GOP in absentee ballot requests

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press