Posted on 08/29/2019 4:57:48 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Democrats are feeling bullish about their chances to win a Senate seat in Georgia in the wake of GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson’s decision to retire.
The announcement, Democrats argue, gives them a golden opportunity to expand the Senate battleground map heading into 2020 and chip away at the GOP’s Senate firewall.
Nikema Williams, the chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia, immediately pledged that the state would be a must-watch “battleground” in 2020, saying in the wake of Isakson’s announcement that it “has never been clearer that the path for Democratic victory runs through Georgia.”
Georgia has typically been a safe Republican state, but Democrats made gains in the House races in 2018 when Rep. Lucy McBath (D) defeated GOP Rep. Karen Handel in the state’s sixth congressional district. The party also came close to winning the governorship when Stacey Abrams lost in a close race to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.
Other planets may also be aligning for Democrats in Georgia.
The party believes the state’s demographics are moving in its direction, and President Trump’s low approval ratings have Democrats thinking he may leave other Republicans vulnerable.
Trump defeated Democratic Hillary Clinton by 5 percentage points in 2016, but only won a little more than 50 percent of the vote. That’s given Democrats new hope of winning the state in the presidential race.
Even if that dream doesn’t come true for the party, Democrats like their chances of winning the open Senate seat in a year when Trump will be at the top of the ticket and Georgia Republicans will also be defending GOP Sen. David Perdue’s seat.
J.B. Poersch — the president of the Senate Majority PAC, an outside group aligned with Senate Democrats — said the open Senate race “increases our chances of retaking the majority.”
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No chance for Dems in a Presidential year.
When the senate seat that Isakson holds originally came open he and Herman Cain both ran for that seat against each other. I voted for Herman initially but Isakson won the primary so I voted for him in the general election against the Dem.
Democrats see golden opportunity to take Georgia Senate seat golden shower ensues.
Beyond that, Herman Cain has very well articulated conservative principles of governance, and for that alone he is just the sort of person the United States needs in the Senate.
Atlanta will eventually drag Georgia to hell, like New York and Chicago.
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