What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

In Fulton and Gwinnett Counties, Ossoff is so far outperforming his previous run in the two Democratic strongholds. Back in November, Ossoff won 70 percent of the vote in Fulton, while Perdue received 28 percent. In Gwinnett, the second-largest county in the state, Ossoff only ended up with 57 percent of the vote there and Perdue got 41 percent. But it’s very early, so that could change.

In my COVID-19 post, I forgot to mention one important way the pandemic has impacted this race: Perdue has had to stay off the campaign trail the last few days because he has been quarantining after being exposed to someone who later tested positive for COVID-19.

Lanier County is reporting around 3,000 votes in, an estimated 95 percent of what’s expected there (for context, around 3,500 votes were cast in the presidential race in November). And so far, Ossoff and Warnock are running just ahead of Biden’s vote share in November — they’re at 30 percent of the vote, while Biden got 28.5 percent. Of course, this is a small, Republican county, so it’s not representative of the state as a whole.